Convocation of Latter Day Daguerreans (1976)
In the heyday of the daguerreotype revival of the 1970’s a gathering of contemporary daguerreotypists occurred on Staten Island, New York. Its aim was to share experiences of coming to terms with the process, to further the state of the art. A report of the meeting is linked here below, author unknown. Images courtesy of Walter Johnson, copy of report kindly provided by Ken Nelson.
Report of the convocation of latter day daguerreans (July 9-11 1976) – pdf file: 1.7MB
- Happy daguerreian with beer
- equipment instruction
- equipment instruction
- Group around a box
- Fuming boxes and mercury pot
- mercury pot
- pot and fuming box
- Harvey fuming
- Fuming boxes and mercury pot
- Harvey in the hood
- Grant instructing
- Harvey polishing
- group around the mercury pot
- equipment and headstands