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Slow Photography: Dan Carillo's Daguerreotypes

By Rain Noe - April 30, 2013

in Photography

There are six billion people on the planet, and something like 2.5 billion camera phones. Facebook alone gets more than 3,000 photos uploaded to it every second; since you started reading this entry, another 10,000 have gone up. Capturing images, once such a difficult and expensive process, has become something we unthinkingly do with little more than our thumbs. Photos are disposable. Forgettable.

Two years ago, photographer Daniel Carillo took a daguerreotype workshop at Rochester's George Eastman House photography museum. Seattle-based Carillo fell in love with the process, which is about as opposite to digital photography as you can get: An image isn't a quickly-captured string of code that lives on a website, but something that has been painstakingly burned into a shiny, solid piece of metal using alchemy and elbow grease. It took Carillo a year just to acquire the tools and materials needed to produce a single daguerreotype.

In the video below, fellow shooter Patrick Richardson Wright captures Carillo's process. It's so beautiful, you'll want to pull your cell phone out and snap a picture of it.

Via PetaPixel

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Saikat

12 years ago

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This is much better:
http://petapixel.com/2013/02/20/wet-plate-collodion-photography-from-a-first-person-point-of-view/
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michael pappas

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"this has been an edition of the biannual gratuitous daguerreotype mini documentary."
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