Before & After - People in Early Photography (Part 2)

More early "Before & After" photographs of people. The first image is pre-1860, the second image was taken years later.
See also:
Part 1 -
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Part 3 -
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Then & Now - People Born in the 1700s -
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About H. E. Insley:
Henry Earle Insley (1811 - 1894) is a photography pioneer largely forgotten by history. His brother-in-law was George W. Prosch, who in late September 1839 constructed a daguerreotype camera for Samuel Morse. Insley became involved into the daguerreotype experiments. According to his account, Prosch and Morse were the first to produce a still life daguerreotype, and John William Draper was the first to take a portrait from life. Insley and Prosch experimented with the daguerreotype process in 1839, as well as taking portraits, attested by his c. 1839 ("late 1839 or very early in 1840") self-portrait. Prosch and Insley had a daguerreotype gallery at Broadway and Liberty Street, which closed in Autumn 1840 due to the days turning shorter. He used double mirrors for reflecting sunlight into his studio, and also blue glass for softening the light. In 1841, when Insley opened a new daguerreotype gallery, he claimed to have taken the first photograph of a moving subject, a man walking along the Bowery. According to The Sun (1894), this picture was taken with a moving camera and later retouched. In 1852 he received a patent for "illuminated daguerreotypes". Insley operated several daguerreotype galleries throughout the 1840s and 1850s and had a reputation as "the cleverest daguerreotyper in New York". Many of Insley's pictures can be found online. Other forgotten 1839 New York pioneers of the daguerreotype include Dr. Charles E. West, a colleague of Draper & Morse, and James R. Chilton of 263 Broadway.
www.daguerreotypearchive.org/t...
art.nelson-atkins.org/people/...
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...
Insley recounts the 1839 period in "The Early Days," Anthonys Photographic Bulletin 14:19 (September 1883): 313-14, which I haven't been able to find online.
Tags: Vintage photography, early photography, daguerreotype, 1840s, Victorian era, 19th century, 1850s

[@barrymoore4470]

It's so interesting to see these people not only at different stages in life, but also documented by changing methods of a new medium still evolving at that time, as well as exhibiting shifting modes of dress and styling. It was not only the photographers who were pioneers of the revolutionary technology of photography, but the subjects themselves, even if they did not fully understand or appreciate that fact.

[@SStupendous]

Indeed. It's pretty cool, seeing this and similar of people whose lives covered most of the 19th century, even through the fashion as you said, from dressing like Bob Cratchit in the early 1840s to the sack coats and string ties of the early 1860s for instance.

[@NeTxGrl]

Seeing people born so long ago come to life with the assistance of photography. Before photography all we had were paintings and their written words, it gave them a storybook feel. This also makes me sad. They had lives to live and now they're gone. That'll be us someday.

[@barryscott8041]

Love your choice for music...

[@arago8649]

Thanks

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Good job, there's also an interesting one with William Henry Perkin that you should add too to your next one.

[@arago8649]

Thanks! Will add him on part 3

[@Lardenoy]

Fascinant ! Merci beaucoup ! Lorsqu'on songe qu'on possède un daguerréotype de l'impératrice Marie Louise, âgée (seconde épouse de Napoléon Ier), en 1847, un portrait de Louis-Philippe, âgé (qui avait 20 ans pendant la Révolution), mais, hélas, aucun portrait de Marie-Thérèse de France (fille de Louis XVI), décédée seulement en 1851 : avis aux chercheurs...

[@deealex1402]

fascinating. love these videos.

[@arago8649]

Glad you like them!

[@permanenttrack]

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. seemed to keep the same hairstyle his whole life.

[@SStupendous]

At 1:15, it's definitely not true that "Griffin Evans" was the first centenarian or anything near, but he's among the earliest fully verifiable ones. Enjoyed the video, like your other then & now uploads.

[@arago8649]

Thanks and sorry for the poor wording, I meant that he was one of the first centenarians who was photographed *and* one of the first people from the 1930s to have been photographed.

[@SStupendous]

Centenarians of the 1930s, right? Or you mean the first photographs taken in the 1930s...@@arago8649

[@pepsiyummie1]

Love seeing these.❤

[@arago8649]

Thank you!

[@04straw]

Thank you! ❤

[@arago8649]

Your welcome!

[@gazzadee3]

So weird to think 200 years ago, those born in the 1810/20s would be the first generation to live through the development of photography, and able to sit in later life and look at a had held true picture of themselves and say, “I was so young then”

[@brianwarriner8826]

Okay you officially have the coolest channel on KZbin

[@arago8649]

Thank you very much

[@TheGem07]

Great instructional videos, not only for those interested in photography. The great background music is, that also Zakhar Valaha ?If so, which title?Thanks in advance for your answer

[@arago8649]

Thanks very much, as for the music I have it from here: pixabay.com/pt/music/piano-solo-fundo-musical-relaxante-para-meditacao-120658/

[@TheGem07]

@@arago8649 👍

[@alyu1129]

Time is a thief. It takes everything away.

[@imaginegettingthat.99slopp7]

aging appears so seamless

[@ez3333]

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