//…Ulvis Alberts…//
Tom Waits
web: http://www.ulvisalberts.com/

//… Berenice Abbott…//
Joe’s Bar, 1935-50.
Greenwich Village New York.

.“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
—Leonardo da Vinci

Studies of Machinery (verso of Studies for the Christ Child with a Lamb), about 1503–06, Leonardo da Vinci. The J. Paul Getty Museum.

//…Sheldon K. Nichols…//
This smart daguerreotypist posed these sisters in a comfortable resting position for the long exposure which produced a relaxed and in-focus double portrait.
Two Girls Reclining on a Chaise Lounge, 1851-1854, Sheldon K. Nichols. J. Paul Getty Museum.

thegetty:

Daguerreo-ception.

P.S. Daguerre’s last surviving diorama in Bry-Sur-Marne, a conservation tale!

Portrait of Unidentified Daguerreotypist, 1845, Unknown. J. Paul Getty Museum.