A Giroux camera is going under the auction hammer this coming May at a WestLicht Photographica Auction, where a similar one sold last year for $576,000. Cdags.org member Ake Hultman sent in an image of a replica he made which looks to be a very good way of saving half a million dollars…

Five new images have been added to Casey’s gallery continuing his daguerreian documentation of life in New England.

Another exhibitor at the Héritages de Daguerre exhibition at Bry sur Marne, has his own gallery here at cdags.org.. A photographer and cinematographer from Rome, Giancarlo first became interested in daguerreotypes after reading an interview with Irving Pobboravsky in a photography magazine. Attracted by the idea of creating a photograph from raw materials, he produced his first daguerreotype in 1980 sensitizing with iodine and developing with mercury. From 1981 to 1983, Giancarlo De Noia exchanged notes and opinions on daguerreotype creation techniques with Irving Pobboravsky via written mail in that time before internet and email. He met with Irving and also Grant Romer and Ken Nelson on a fruitfull trip to Rochester NY in 1991. Giancarlo last produced a daguerreotype in 1992 and in 2008, his experiences as a daguerreotypist were reviewed in Rossano Bertolo’s degree dissertation for the University of Udine – “The Invention of the Daguerreotype: historic remarks and contemporary use”.

Six new whole plate images have been added to Binh’s gallery, marking a new direction for his daguerreotypy – that of in camera views (as opposed to his previous ones which were darkroom works).