Daguerreobase
Daguerreobase is a public platform of archives, libraries, museums and private contributors from across Europe. Daguerreobase assembles and preserves information on daguerreotypes. It aims to bring together digital images and descriptions of more than 25 000 European historical daguerreotypes and related literature. Daguerreobase is a unique research tool for daguerreotypes, not only for scientists, but also for collectors, photographers and the general public.
In Daguerreobase you will see amazing historical pictures made by the first photographers in Europe, and you will find quality images of daguerreotypes in a common database.
The database will teach you how to recognise these unique objects and how to share them with the public at large. The content will also become available through Europeana, the portal and digital library for European Cultural Heritage of the European Union.
In 2014, Daguerreobase and Europeana will celebrate the 175th birthday of photography with a Virtual Exhibition of European daguerreotypes on their website.
Currently 18 partners from 13 different European countries are working together: institutions, and photograph conservators.
The project is partially funded under the (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community.
Coordinator[]
Partners[]
Austria – , IPR
Belgium –
Czech Republic – National Technical Museum
Denmark – , and Copenhagen University Library
Finland – , FMP
France – , ARCP
Germany – Museum Ludwig / Stadt Köln
Germany – , Dresden
Italy – SMP Di Sandra Maria Petrillo
Norway – National Library of Norway
Spain – Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
Netherlands – bv
Netherlands – Ortelee Marinus Jan / Daguerreotypist,
United Kingdom –
See also[]
- Daguerreotypes
- Europeana
External links[]
- 19th century in art
- Photographic processes dating from the 19th century
- Alternative photographic processes
- Monochrome photography