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episode 23: Southworth & Hawes: America's Early Masters of the Daguerreotype Portrait
In this episode of the Fine Art Photography podcast: the story of Boston-based Southworth & Hawes, the first American masters of daguerreotype portraiture. We will talk about the partnership between Albert Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes in the earliest days of photography that created some of the most beautiful portraits ever. We'll also take a dive into the daguerreotype process.
Sources for this episode:
Center for Artifact Studies, Photograph Identification Guide, “Tintypes, Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes,” David Rudd Cycleback
http://www.cycleback.com/photoguide/dags.html
Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Southworth & Hawes”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Southworth-and-Hawes
George Eastman House photos of Southworth and Hawes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157606223836462/
George Eastman House, “Guide to the Southworth & Hawes Records” (PDF)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qt2Cal2WvraU9ziuAjI0A1hc-6AUUR9b/view
Historic Camera, “Francois Gouraud”
http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=1510
International Center of Photography, “Southworth & Hawes: Permanence” Accessed via Web Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090914011610/http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/southworth_hawes/pages/permanence.html
International Center of Photography, “Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes,” Accessed via Web Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090914013122/http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/southworth_hawes/pages/young_america.html
National Gallery of Art, Southworth and Hawes, “The Letter, ca. 1850”
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.110216.html
Skinner, “How to Identify a Daguerreotype: 5 Considerations When Looking at Early Photography”
https://www.skinnerinc.com/news/blog/how-to-identify-a-daguerreotype-early-photography/
Wikipedia, “Daguerreotype”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
Wikipedia, “François Fauvel Gouraud”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Fauvel_Gouraud
Wikipedia, “Photography in the United States”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_in_the_United_States
Wikipedia, “Samuel Morse”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse
Wikipedia, “Scollay Square”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scollay_Square
Wikipedia, “Tremont Row”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_Row