At age 20 Savana Jones has many years of Daguerreotypy ahead of her, but is off to a very good start. Hailing from Salt Lake City, her self portraits make our latest addition to the Galleries section. Savana uses the becquerel process, gilding her plates also. Judging by these and her inventive and sublime other photography on her blog, she is a Daguerreotypist to keep eye on.

Ken Nelson has taught many the art of the Daguerreotype and at the recent symposium in DC he was on the scene again with beautiful plates in hand. In his own words:

I first read the word “daguerreotype” in an article by James Ambrecht in the June, 1973 issue of Camera 35 magazine. Following on that, I’ve been making daguerreotypes since 1976. I’m largely self-taught, but owe a great debt to Irving Pobboravsky for the advancement of my skill. I taught the Daguerreotype as part of the Historic Process Workshops at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House between 1994 and 1999. Lately, I owe a debt for the advancement of my skill to a particular student of mine, Mike Robinson of Toronto, Canada. My students are often now my teachers.

After a nine-year hiatus since 1999, I have returned to the Daguerreotype with a renewed love. The process is being kind to me, allowing me to pick up better than where I left off. In the mean time my vision has evolved and we’ll see where that takes me, but I still see the exquisite Daguerreotype as my preferred way.

Now in the galleries section of this site: Alyssa Salomon. Having studied under Bob Shlaer she has been award a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship, from her website:
“Technically, I employ a broad array of nineteenth century photographic methods in homage to that age of primary scientific discovery and system building. I rely on the unfamiliar views afforded by these arcane technologies to attract the eye and to engage recollection.”

Opening this weekend in Chicago is an exhibition featuring a work by Daguerreotypist Sean Culver.
On until December 20th the exhibit at the Around the Coyote Gallery has a kinetic sculpture with Daguerreotypes. More of Sean’s work can now be seen in galleries section of this site.

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Around the Coyote Gallery
1935 1/2 W. North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
773 342 6777
www.aroundthecoyote.org

OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, November 15, from 6pm-10pm

see also
www.seanculver.com

Known to the older generation of contemporary Daguerreotypists as the “Prince of polish” Irving has made an art of the science as well as a science of the art. His recent still-lifes make up our latest artist gallery.

Whole plate and heavenly – the Daguerreotypes of Gregory Popovitch are our new gallery. Unmistakably modern they are also mercurial in their making. A practitioner since 2003 Gregory finds “solace in creating one of a kind objects using the manual, demanding and unpredictable Daguerreotype process”.

A trained silversmith with his own hallmark is the next Daguerriean to join our gallery ranks. Brenton uses both Mercurial and Becquerel processes as well as making his own modern cases and is based in the UK.

John Hurlock has been making Daguerreotypes since 1956 and uses cold mercury development (the plates are developed in a vacuum where the mercury off gases at a high rate). Stereoscopic, botanicals, architectural and portrait images grace his website and now our galleries sections as well.

Daguerreotypes of Antarctica by Joyce Campbell are the newest additions to our gallery section. The 5×7″ plates are part of a “Last Light” series of images made in the Ross sea region in 2006.