Speculating Daguerre is exceptional-there is simply nothing like it in the literature of photography or of nineteenth-century French art history.

Speculating Daguerre is exceptional-there is simply nothing like it in the literature of photography or of nineteenth-century French art history. It is not a biography of Daguerre, but rather a detailed examination of his artistic output, of his endlessly inventive methods, of his hunger for status, recognition, and monetary success, all set into the context of the crosscurrents of art theory and art criticism of the time

In Speculating Daguerre, Stephen C. Pinson reinterprets the story of the man and his time, painting a vivid picture of Daguerre as an innovative artist and savvy impresario whose eventual fame as a photographer eclipsed everything that had come before.

In Speculating Daguerre, Stephen C. Drawing upon previously unpublished correspondence and unplumbed archival sources, Pinson mixes biography with an incisive study of Daguerre’s wide-ranging involvement in visual culture.

Daguerre : Art and Enterprise in the Work of L. J. M. Daguerre.

book by Stephen C. Pinson. Speculating Daguerre : Art and Enterprise in the Work of L. by Stephen C. Louis Jacques Mand? Daguerre (1787-1851) was a true nineteenth-century visionary-a painter, printmaker, set designer, entrepreneur, inventor, and pioneer of photography. Though he was widely celebrated beyond his own lifetime for his invention of the daguerreotype, it was his origins as a theatrical designer and purveyor of visual entertainment that paved the way for Daguerre's emergence as one of the world's most iconic imagemakers.

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Stephen C. Pinson returned to the Department of Photographs in 2015 . He holds a PhD from Harvard University and is the author of Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of . Pinson returned to the Department of Photographs in 2015, having previously served as the Aaron and Betty Lee Stern Art History Fellow in 2002–3, when he helped organize the exhibition The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839–1855. Stephen previously headed the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library, and held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and at Columbia University

Tom Stammers: Light Fantastic - Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the . For most readers today, Daguerre will be remembered primarily as the father of the daguerreotype, which was unveiled to the French Academy of Sciences with great fanfare in 1839.

Tom Stammers: Light Fantastic - Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of L J M Daguerre by Stephen C Pinson. He is uninterested in who got there first with the photographic process – Fox Talbot, Niépce or Daguerre – or in retracing a lineage of technical breakthroughs.

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