#early-photography

#early-photography

But whereas Lartigue concerned himself with boyish subject matter-racecars, flying machines, the choreographed high jinks of his governesses-and the fashionable trappings of the Belle Époque, Shore seems to have barrelled into his adolescence as a fully formed artist. His work in those early days bears little resemblance to the crystalline large-format portraits of lonely American landscapes that would come to define his career.

Louis Daguerre is recognized as one of the fathers of early photography through his patented process, the daguerreotype, which was in wide use for nearly twenty years.