Vintage Photography - Daguerreotype sixth plate - Jewelry enhanced with gold - 1848

✨the collections of la valise arlésienne✨ [english below] The arlesian suitcase reveals its photographic treasures. Taken out of this suitcase, these carefully selected curiosities are promised to other trips. The gallery is located at 8 rue du docteur fanton in arles, the world capital of photography. Subject: daguerreotype sixth plate - jewelry enhanced with gold - image format 7.6x9.8 cm - frame format 21.7x18.7 cm. Year: 1848. Daguerreotype sixth plate. Image format 7.6x9.8 cm, frame 21.7x18.7 cm. Woman with a headdress and shawl posing in front of hydrangeas. Jewelry enhanced with gold. Signed clermont ferrant 1848 on the back. The daguerreotype is the first photographic process developed by nicéphore niépce and then louis daguerre and offered to the whole world (except in the united kingdom) by france in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive hence this characteristic mirror effect. They will also be poetically called in the nineteenth century "the mirrors that remember". Given the cost and technical difficulties, it will only be used for about ten years in france and will be replaced by other processes. However, there are late daguerreotypes, especially american or anglo-saxon.

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