Toronto. One of our exchange organizations is the Daguerreian Society. This group recently announced their third quarterly issue for 2024.
Cover of the DSQ 36-3
In a mail last, the contents of this issue were listed as including:
- Latest details on next month’s Symposium & Photo Fair in Houston, with topics ranging from a spectacular collection just acquired by a leading museum to early dog show images and tintypes of the first automobiles
- Preview of select offerings in the live Benefit Auction
- Jeremy Rowe reports on the September photography auction by Michael Lehr Antiques
- Wm. B. Becker digs up a super-early daguerreotypist’s ad that reveals just how long patrons had to hold still for a portrait in 1841
- Stephen Perloff recaps the Smithsonian’s purchase of the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady
- In Memoriam: Rebecca L. Norris by Cliff Krainik
To read the articles in full, use the above link and join the Daguerreian Society (DS). This organization also publishes a massive annual. The DS is focussed on images, and mainly those of the first ever process – the Daguerreotype. P.S. you may see some familiar faces in the DS group shot since some PHSC members are also DS members.
