Le daguerréotype français
Subtitle: un objet photographique. [Exposition, Paris, musée d'Orsay, 13 mai-17 août 2003 ; New York, the Metropolitan museum of art, 22 septembre 2003-4 janvier 2004]
By: musée d'Orsay ; ouvrage collectif sous la responsabilité scientifique de Quentin Bajac et Dominique Planchon-de Font-Réaulx.
Contributors: Bajac, Quentin.; Font-Réaulx, Dominique de.; Musée d'Orsay.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Réunion des musées nationaux; Musée d'Orsay
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris; Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Daguerreotype -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.; Photography -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: On January 7, 1839, at a session of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, the physicist François Arago presents a new method to reproduce mechanically and chemically, without manual intervention, the images that form in the dark room: the daguerreotype, marking the official birth of photography. Single image, on copper plate covered with silver, the changing reflections, polished and often reflective as a mirror, Daguerre's invention was to permanently change the gaze on the world and its representations, artistic as scientists. It is this "new art in the middle of an old civilization", in the words of the scientist Gay-Lussac in 1839, the exhibition and the book intend to discover, focusing on French production, all its diversity.