Girault de Prangey's Multiple Exposure Daguerreotypes | Met Exhibitions

After three years traveling throughout the Eastern Mediterranean (1842-45), Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey returned to France with more than one thousand daguerreotype-unique photographic images on silvered copper plates. Among these pictures are the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Jerusalem. Girault’s innovations were both technical and practical. Working with plates that were larger than the standard size at the time, he created a process to expose more than one image on a single plate, which he then cut down, carefully labeled, and stored in custom-built wood boxes, essentially creating the world's first photographic archive.
Featuring
Grant B. Romer, Founding Director, Academy of Archaic Imaging, Rochester, New York.
Produced in association with the exhibition Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, January 30 through May12, 2019.
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Producer: Melissa Bell
Director of Photography: Jonathan Chekroune
Editor: Alex Guns
Additional Camera: Alex Guns
Production Coordinator: Bryan Martin
Production Assistant: Courtney Stith
Original Music: Austin Fisher
Images courtesy of:
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Photography © National Collection of Qatar
© 2018 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[@rubaidaallen2764]

This is so beautiful and interesting. I've always loved this style of photography.

[@aswanson42]

There is a book! I just bought it on-line at the Met’s shop. Wish I could see the exhibition, but next best thing and a keeper :)

[@metmuseum]

Thank you! We're glad you were able to purchase the book and appreciate your support.

[@aswanson42]

Oh, please let there be a book made of this collection!

[@mountvernon]

Fantastic video!

[@benparkinson8314]

Cool😊

[@musicaclasicaviva4258]

excelente

[@metmuseum]

¡Muchisimas gracias!

[@marie-christineboineau5470]

Je regrette qu'il n'y ait pas de sous-titres en français.