20th Century Dag

[botticelli1972]

I do not know if this helps but I did notice an article by Grant Romer in the bibliography for the Kilgo book on Thomas Easterly. It was titled something like "The Daguerreotype in American and England after 1860" Published in the History of Photography 1 sometime in the 1970’s ( I do not have the exact reference with me at this time). I have not located the article yet but possibly it has references to persons of interest practicing in the 20th C.

[Jon Lewis]

I pulled this reference from the Daguerreian Society’s Survey of Daguerreian Literature: The Contemporary Daguerreotype

Romer, Grant B. "The Daguerreotype in America and England after 1860." History of Photography 1, #1 (July 1977), pp. 201-212. Very important article dealing primarily with M.J. Steffens, Charles Tremear, Ray Phillips, and Irving Pobboravsky but also reproducing daguerreotypes by Romer and Harvey Zucker.

Thanks for the tip! I’m going to see if I can track it down…

[Andy Stockton]

Here’s a New York Times article about a contemporary artist (Adam Fuss) working with dagurerreotypes:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h … sec=&spon=

I was surprised by the size mentioned (20×24). Wow.

[Jon Lewis]

I chased down Romer’s article and it’s a fascinating read! As the title suggests, he traces the practice of daguerreotypy the decline of it’s popularity through to the 1970s. It’s amazing that someone has always been interested in the process. Though I think there are more daguerreotypists now than any time since the end of the daguerreian era.

If anyone wants a copy of the article send me an email or a private message…

Andy – I’ve run across a couple references to David Burder (a stereo photographer) who created a 24×48 daguerreotype in 2003. I believe it was a Becquerel dag and it’s supposed to have been a world record though I haven’t found enough info to really verify the whole thing.

[Andy Stockton]

Amazing. 24×48! I’m having trouble deciding on a polishing method to do a sixth plate! There are so many different choices and so little agreement on methods. Have you made a choice yet?

[Jon Lewis]

It’s a bit off topic though polishing does seem to find it’s way into every aspect of daguerreotypy ” title=”Wink” />

I’m going to go with the hotly debated random orbital sander, silk velvet, and rouge method. I’d rather use a more traditional buffing paddle with buckskin but I don’t have the equipment to build one right now and I’m itching to get some plates in the camera. The random orbital sander will just work better for me at this point and I’ll just have to make it work.

[drdag]

Indeed David Burder did make the worlds largest dag. It was shown on the BBC programme ‘What The Victorians Did For Us’. He is a very nice, incredibly bright man , he came to the private view of my London show last month.He is also the worlds’ authority on 3D imaging.

[Jon Lewis]

If I had been a bit smarter I would have realized that in the resources section there is an account of David Burder’s daguerreotypy. Included is his Big Bertha 24×48 daguerreotype equipment. He also played with color daguerreotypes as well as lenticular! I need to sit down and read it more carefully but I have to get to work before I’m any later than I already am!

[CasedImage]

Does anyone know anything about these items, I’ve seen them on ebay before and wonder if some 20th century daguerreotypist was actually making them, maybe copy dags of prints or is it just the terminology being borrowed?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sporting-News-Daguerreotypes-of-Great-Stars-of-Baseball_W0QQitemZ360129763112QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:101

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sporting-News-Daguerreotypes-of-Great-Stars-of-Baseball_W0QQitemZ360129763389QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:102

www.CasedImage.com

[Sean Culver]

Yes, I heard about these from Jerry S. who has a great story about the Baseball Daguerreotypes, which are not daguerreotypes at all. I’ll let him tell you his story.

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