Introduction to the History of Photography

  Cincinnati Waterfront Panorama Daguerreotype, taken by Charles Fontayne and William S. Porter in 1848 click on the image to enlarge  sources: http://codex99.com/photography/5.html  http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~rmessing/cincinnatti/     A zoom illustrating the extraordinary level of detail in a daguerreotype This is plate 4 of the Cincinnati Waterfront Panorama Daguerreotype consisting of 8 plates, taken by Charles Fontayne and William S. Porter in 1848. The plate, property of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton Counties, was imaged in tiles using a stereomicroscope (Zeiss StereoDiscovery.V12) at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film, Kay Whitmore Conservation Center, in Rochester, NY source:  YouTube   links: http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/main/rb.asp#daguerreotype http://www.tedxcincy.com/2010/09/30/fontayne-porter-panorama-part-2-by-patricia-van-skaik/    Porter, William S...

Daguerre - The Effect of Fog and Snow Seen through a Ruined Gothic Colonnade, 1826 Oil on canvas, L. J. M. Daguerre, in Gerard Levy Collection Reproduced in Panoramania! by Ralph Hyde, London: Trefoil Publications / Barbican Art Gallery 1988, catalogue item No.99 on p.119 with colour illustration on p. 168 source: The Diorama: some images compiled by R. Derek Wood http://www.midley.co.uk/ Ticket signed by Daguerre in 1830 for complimentary visit of two persons to his Diorama in Paris Reproduced from H. & A. Gernsheim L. J. M. Daguerre , fig. 26, Secker & Warburg: London 1956 source: The Diorama: some images compiled by R. Derek Wood http://www.midley.co.uk/ Photographed by R. D. Wood (July 2001) The diorama painted by Daguerre in 1842 in the church at Bry-sur-Marne, poorly surviving there after 159 years. source: The Diorama: some images compiled by R. Derek Wood http://www.midley.co.uk/ Diorama by Daguerre in the church at Bry-sur-Marne c. 1840 (in process of restorati...

Contemporary painting of the construction of a Panorama Rotunda. c.1830 note the 'vellum' in the upper right of the image source: http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/PANORAMA.html Cross section of Robert Barker's Panorama, Leicester Square, London, 1789 source: http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/PANORAMA.html Panorama of Edinburgh from the top of St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile Robert Barker, c.1787, 2.5m x 0.3m (model) source: http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/PANORAMA.html