For the Imageobject event we would like to encourage daguerreotypists and makers of daguerreotype equipment, to display equipment on the day of the symposium (Wednesday April the 3rd). Fuming boxes, Mercury pots, cameras, dark slides, buffing paddles, if you use it to make dags we would like it to generate discussion.

We will be having a series of talks in the Canter for Alternative Photography’s skylight studio (upstairs from the exhibition space) the day following the opening gala. Alongside new equipment for sale we would like to encourage people to display their equipment to aid in the forum of discussion and sharing of ideas.

If you’re not attending you can ship equipment for display (for sale or not) but you will have to cover the cost of shipping to and returning from, as the artists are doing with the artworks on display. We will be staffing the exhibit and symposium and will take good care of the equipment and ensure it gets back to you.

Our aim is to encourage and support the makers of daguerreian equipment so that it is easier for people to obtain and take up the art.

There is a new member in the CDags community. Claudio Santambrogio joins us from Italy and has a new gallery page of his most recent daguerreotypes. Welcome, Claudio!

Máté Bakody has started a new group on Facebook for Hungarian artists interested in learning more about the daguerreotype process. He established the group, along with Bálint Flesch, this past September. The name of the group is: Magyar Dagerrotípia Kör (Hungarian Daguerreotype Community) and all posts are written in their native language to help educate and encourage interested artists to join their online community.  To join the group visit the Magyar Dagerrotípia Kör page.

This exhibition will explore object based photograpy. Included in the exhibition will be Daguerreotypes by Binh Danh.  A list of all participating artists can be found on the website.

The Physical Photograph
January 19-March 2
Art Intersection
207 N Gilbert Rd # 201, Gilbert, AZ, 85234
www.artintersection.com

This exciting, two day, hands-on workshop led by Jerry Spagnoli will introduce you to the daguerreotype – the first photographic process presented to the public in 1839. A daguerreotype is a photographic image, produced on a sheet of polished silver, unmatched for its detail and clarity, and for its unique presence. The daguerreotype is as much an object to hold in your hand as an image to look into. The process has a rich historical legacy but has been largely lost to artists for over one hundred years, leaving much unexplored potential for the modern practitioner to explore.

This workshop will investigate the process introduced by M.E. Bequerrel in the 1840′s. The ‘Bequerrel Process’ is simple in its parts, but supports subtle technique, and requires none of the extremely hazardous chemicals traditionally associated with making daguerreotypes developed with mercury. The plates can either be exposed in a large format camera, or contact printed from a film positive.

Participants will learn all the steps necessary to make a Bequerrel daguerreotype and will be given abundant time to make images in class. The skills you will acquire include polishing, sensitizing and finishing the plates, as well as instruction on making your own equipment so that you can continue the process in your own darkroom.

For more information and to register:

http://artintersection.com/event/daguerreotype-workshop-with-jerry-spagnoli/

Two new plates have been added to Dominique’s gallery

Three new galleries have been added to the tech galleries workshops, cameras and fuming boxes by Brenton West.

The dates for the ImageObject have shifted due to some unforeseen logistics. The official opening of the exhibit will be on Tuesday the 2nd of April from 6 to 9pm. It will be open to the public from 12 noon to 7pm till the 16th of April. After the opening the night before, on Wednedsay the 3rd, there will be a series of talks about modern daguerreotypy, more details to follow soon.