Daguerreotype-mania | HENI Talks and The National Portrait Gallery

HENI Talks in collaboration with ‪@nationalportraitgallery‬ examines and demonstrates the introduction of the daguerreotype from 1839 that marked a revolution in portrait making.
Daguerreotype portraiture caught the public’s imagination, and the photographic studios where they were lucrative businesses and quickly sprang up around the world.
This film explores work made by the two earliest photographic portrait studios in London, set up by Richard Beard and Antoine Claudet. They opened within months of each other in 1841, and are considered the birth of portrait photography in the United Kingdom.
Clare Freestone is Curator in the Photographs Collection at The National Portrait Gallery.
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