(These are my tintypes that I hang on my bulletin board all the time. I wish they were Daguerrotypes. 😉 )
I was so tickled this morning when I opened up Google and the doodle was a Daguerrotype! Thank you, thank you, thank you to the man who invented the first successful commercial photo process.
Without him who knows what my Nikon child-of-a-camera or my beloved Polaroids would look like today. Would they even exist? I don’t like to even think of it!
I’ve always been looking for Daguerrotypes in antique stores, but there has never been one for a good price. I did get these tintypes above for a couple dollars, (most likely because they are in such terrible shape) but I’ve never seen a well-priced Daguerrotype. I won’t get into the photo nerd details about why Daguerrotypes make me so swoony, I just want to say:
♥HAPPY 224th BIRTHDAY MONSIEURE DAGUERRE!♥
(Daguerre’s famous photo– argued to be the first photo of a person… ever.)
