Comment on This Vassar Photo Exhibit Shows How The Daguerreotype Made Americans More Democratic

This Vassar Photo Exhibit Shows How The Daguerreotype Made Americans More Democratic

The barber had one. So did the shopkeeper, the taxidermist and the wheelwright. In 1840s America, portraiture was no longer the prerogative of the elite, laboriously painted in oil on canvas. With the invention of the daguerreotype, any tradesman could be as pictorially immortal as Louis XIV or George Washington.

 

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