Miss Hodges of Salem
Southworth and Hawes|Josiah Johnson Hawes|Albert Sands Southworth
ca. 1850 · Daguerreotype · Photographs
This first photographic process, invented by Louis Daguerre (1798-1851), spread rapidly around the world after its public presentation in Paris in 1839. Exposed in a camera obscura and developed in mercury vapors, each highly polished silver plate is a one-of-a-kind photograph that, viewed in proper light, exhibits extraordinary detail and three-dimensionality. The Boston partnership of Southworth and Hawes produced the finest portrait daguerreotypes in America for a clientele that included leading political, intellectual, and artistic figures. Nothing is known today about Miss Hodges, but Southworth and Hawes made two costly whole-plate portraits of her for their studio collection, suggesting that she was sufficiently well known – or sufficiently photogenic – to warrant displaying her likeness in the front-room public gallery.
- Artist
- Southworth and Hawes|Josiah Johnson Hawes|Albert Sands Southworth
- Date
- ca. 1850
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937
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