Josiah Johnson Hawes was part of the successful photography duo of Southworth and Hawes, which had a flourishing Daguerreotype business in Boston from 1843 to about 1863. After the firm dissolved in 1 ...
Read ArticleOn 9 January, 1839, Louis Daguerre (1787-1851 France) introduced his groundbreaking daguerreotype photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. In early 1838 he had used the process to photo ...
Read ArticleMarcus Root was one of the first of a group of pioneer Daguerreotype photographers, among the first to open a portrait studio. He was an early advocate of photographers being considered artists. ...
Read ArticleThe beginnings of the women’s rights movement in the United States occurred at the same time as early developments in photography in this country. To celebrate Women’s History Month, I pre ...
Read ArticleI am Totally not into getting my photograph taken, especially while on vacation, so I am the last person on Earth who should criticize the way other people come out in photographic portraits. I don&rs ...
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