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The Albertina museum in Vienna will be displaying around 80 ‘daguerreotypes’ from the period dating from the 1840s to approximately 1850, which marks the beginning of the history of Austrian photography.
In 1839, ‘daguerreotypy’ was presented to the public in Paris as the first photographic process. It was named after the inventor Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851), who had developed it with his French countryman, the private scholar Nicéphore Niépce.
The light sensitivity of various materials had already been observed earlier, and it had been remarked that shadowgraphs or images projected through the lens of a camera obscura could be seen to emerge on these materials. Daguerre and Niépce’s main achievement was in being able to chemically fix these images, so that they would be permanent. The last important step in the birth of photography had thus been made.
The daguerreotype process involves exposing silver plates or, alternatively, silver-plated copper plates, to light. Because these image carriers are not transparent, they are referred to as direct-positives, which – in contrast to the later negative-positive process – do not produce reproductions (e.g., “prints” from a negative), but rather each one is unique in itself.
The shiny, polished metal plates, with their exceedingly fine surface structure, lend the pictures something exquisite, something of the preciousness of a miniature, but also something unerringly precise.
The Albertina’s photographic collection itself contains an unusual number of convincing examples from the pioneer era of Austrian ‘daguerreotypy’. To complement them, numerous loans– among them new discoveries – from private and public archives and collections in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria have been included.
22nd of September – 19th of November
Vienna – Austria - Europe
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