Daguerreotypes: Professional Practice/Major Makers
The earliest daguerreians were concerned not only with securing a permanent, one-of-a-kind image but also with developing a commercial application for this process.
Professional studio portraiture became predominant and the cities of New York, Boston and Philadelphia quickly emerged as centers of early photography, boasting such notable artists as Southworth & Hawes, America’s first masters of the daguerreotype. By 1850, all major cities had notable daguerreian artists in operation.
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Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, 1811-1894 and 1808-1901 |
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Russell A. Miller, act. 1850s-1860s |
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Henry E. Insley, 1811-1894 |
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Donald McDonnell, act. 1850s |
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Platt D. Babbitt, 1822-1879 |
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William C. North, 1814-1890 |
