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This is a reblogging reminder through a great Daguerreotype from art-history. We automatically made a visual connection for the promotional images for Meditations on the Multiple, an exhibition of work made over the last six months by The Gowanus Studio Space 2011 Printshop Residents. Meditations on the Multiple: An exhibition from the GSS Printshop Residency Program December 9th - January 13th. Opening Reception: December 9th, 7pm - 10pmFeaturing work from Yunmee Kyong, Michelle Levy, and Jomar Statkun art-history: Henry Fitz, Jr. Self-Portrait  1839 Daguerreotype National Museum of American History  This daguerreotype of Henry Fitz Jr. with his eyes closed is one of the first known photographic self-portraits. Fitz, an early innovator in the new field of photography, opened a daguerreotype studio in Baltimore in 1840. Later, as an accomplished and well-respected optician in New York City, he became well known for creating high-quality lenses for early cameras and telescopes. Fitz’s dreamy look in this self-portrait was actually the result of the five-minute exposure time in bright light that early daguerreotype cameras required of sitters. —Smithsonian Photography Initiative

This is a reblogging reminder through a great Daguerreotype from art-history. We automatically made a visual connection for the promotional images for Meditations on the Multiple, an exhibition of work made over the last six months by The Gowanus Studio Space 2011 Printshop Residents.


Meditations on the Multiple: An exhibition from the GSS Printshop Residency Program
December 9th - January 13th. Opening Reception: December 9th, 7pm - 10pm
Featuring work from Yunmee Kyong, Michelle Levy, and Jomar Statkun

art-history:

Henry Fitz, Jr. 
Self-Portrait  1839 
Daguerreotype
National Museum of American History 

This daguerreotype of Henry Fitz Jr. with his eyes closed is one of the first known photographic self-portraits. Fitz, an early innovator in the new field of photography, opened a daguerreotype studio in Baltimore in 1840. Later, as an accomplished and well-respected optician in New York City, he became well known for creating high-quality lenses for early cameras and telescopes. Fitz’s dreamy look in this self-portrait was actually the result of the five-minute exposure time in bright light that early daguerreotype cameras required of sitters.

—Smithsonian Photography Initiative

Posted on December 9th, 2011
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