Half Plate Daguerreotype of Full Moon.
This 1991, half-plate daguerreotype of a full moon by daguerreotypist Robert Shlaer of Santa Fe, N.M. utilizes 19th century technology to capture the image of the Earth's orbital satellite in the Space Age.
Shlaer is one of the major artists in the contemporary resurrection and popular reintroduction of the daguerreotype process into modern photography in the digital age. A theoretical biologist, Shaler began experimenting with the process in 1973 and in 1987 he gave up biology to pursue daguerreian photography full time. Among his favorite subjects are landscapes, nudes, solar eclipses and the moon.
This daguerreotype, entitled "The Moon", was formerly part of the Jack Naylor Collection, which was the finest collection ever assembled of photographic equipment, prints and memorabilia. The image is additionally etched, "1:30 AM MST 4/1/91Santa Fe, N.M. copyright 1991, R. Shlaer 223."
Provenance: Acquired from the Jack Naylor Collection via auction in 2007, from Guernsey's Auctions, New York, New York.
Deaccessed, Bonhams Auction BOK24021LA, 13 October 2024
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Sources:
Daguerreotype, Wikipedia, 18 May 2012, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
Robert Shlaer, Daguerreotypist, JPG MAG - 8020 Media, Inc, 18 May 2012, from: http://jpgmag.com/photos/1117459
New Gallery- Robert Schaller, Contemporary Daguerreotypes, 18 May 2012, from: http://www.cdags.org/2009/06/15/new-gallery-robert-shlaer/
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