Défilé sur le Pont-Royal
Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat|Stanislas Ratel
May 1, 1844 · Daguerreotype · Photographs
In January 1839 the Romantic painter and printmaker Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851) showed members of the French Académie des Sciences an invention he believed would forever change visual representation: photography. Each daguerreotype (as Daguerre dubbed his invention) is an image produced on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper. Using an “accelerating liquid” of their own devising, the daguerreotypists Choiselat and Ratel were able to reduce exposure times from minutes to seconds, which allowed them to capture events as they happened. Here the mounted guards stationed along one of Paris’s most famous bridges registered clearly on the daguerreotype plate, but even with a short exposure time the moving crowds and rolling carriages became a blur of activity.
- Artist
- Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat|Stanislas Ratel
- Date
- May 1, 1844
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
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