This Saturday, July 9th, Takashi Arai will be opening a three month solo exhibition of contemporary daguerreotypes at the Kawasaki City Museum. From Takashi:

I will exhibit 3 sets of brand-new works for this show:

Also, we would be happy if you would join us on July 16th at kawasaki City Museum for the artists’ talk with Mari Miki, a young conservator and former Mellon Fellow in Photograph Conservation in George Eastman House. I and Miki collaborated to make reproductions of ‘Eirikimaru’ daguerreotypes: the first photographed images of Japanese people in 1850.

Three new mercurial images added to Bin’s gallery show his pilgrimage to Yosemite and are presented in reverse painted passe partout.

Readers residing in or traveling to Italy are cordially invited to Beniamino’s new exhibit in Milan;

As part of the FotoRio 2011 festival Francisco da Costa is offering a daguerreotype workshop in Lumiar near Rio de Janiero in July. Through google translate here is gist of the portuguese text;

“The purpose of the studio with the century daguerreotype workshop and offer an immersion in this nineteenth-century photographic technica, allowing each particante try for a weekend the whole process, from polishing the copper plate until the image on the silver. Cost: R$ 425 per participant includes two days of classes practicas, classes 15 hours (Manah is later), all materials used and the manual, in addition to food stuffs and stay in Lumiar – RJ”

To some extent every one who tackles the process does it alone, even if you’ve got someone showing you initially you have to wander in the wilderness and work it out. When you come from a part of the world where there are no veteran daguerreotypists to offer advice (an assumption on my part here, but hopefully an accurate one), how much harder it must be to delve into the process. Cue the age of the internet where the lineage of solitary practitioners since the time of Daguerre are drawn together into a community for the benefit of all.

Jeff Green is a contemporary daguerreotype collector, a sponser of related events and has offered to purchase $100 worth of daguerreotype plates from daguerreotypists for Li of China since he has been having difficulty getting good silvered plates. If you would like to sell or provide plates for Li contact admin@cdags.org and we will facilitate getting them to him.

Inspired by Hippolyte Bayard images, Dominique shot a series of plates in his garden using a XIXth century barrel and watering can obtained from flee markets, these have been added to his gallery.

Three new old world cityscapes have been added to Beniamino’s gallery..

Jerry Spagnoli has upsized his work with the addition of 11 x 14 inch format (10 3/8 x 13 7/8 to be exact) to his repertoire. He sent us these two scans of the accomplishment, including a portrait of fellow daguerreotypist Adam Fuss.

For those interested in the origins of the Daguerreotype, the Paris photography school Speos and the museum Maison Nicéphore Niépce in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes have launched an online publication of Niépce – Letters and Documents, a collation of the correspondance of Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833).
The revised online edition of Niépce, Letters and Documents is a compilation of over 700 documents from more than 50 international archives. Some brushing up on your French required.