Southworth & Hawes: America's Early Masters of the Daguerreotype Portrait

In this episode of the Fine Art Photography podcast: the story of Boston-based Southworth & Hawes, the first American masters of daguerreotype portraiture. We will talk about the partnership between Albert Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes in the earliest days of photography that created some of the most beautiful portraits ever. We'll also take a dive into the daguerreotype process.

Sources for this episode:



Center for Artifact Studies, Photograph Identification Guide, “Tintypes, Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes,” David Rudd Cycleback

http://www.cycleback.com/photoguide/dags.html



Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Southworth & Hawes”

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Southworth-and-Hawes



George Eastman House photos of Southworth and Hawes

https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157606223836462/



George Eastman House, “Guide to the Southworth & Hawes Records” (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qt2Cal2WvraU9ziuAjI0A1hc-6AUUR9b/view



Historic Camera, “Francois Gouraud”

http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=1510



International Center of Photography, “Southworth & Hawes: Permanence” Accessed via Web Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20090914011610/http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/southworth_hawes/pages/permanence.html



International Center of Photography, “Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes,” Accessed via Web Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20090914013122/http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/southworth_hawes/pages/young_america.html



National Gallery of Art, Southworth and Hawes, “The Letter, ca. 1850”

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.110216.html



Skinner, “How to Identify a Daguerreotype: 5 Considerations When Looking at Early Photography”

https://www.skinnerinc.com/news/blog/how-to-identify-a-daguerreotype-early-photography/



Wikipedia, “Daguerreotype”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype



Wikipedia, “François Fauvel Gouraud”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Fauvel_Gouraud



Wikipedia, “Photography in the United States”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_in_the_United_States



Wikipedia, “Samuel Morse”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse



Wikipedia, “Scollay Square”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scollay_Square



Wikipedia, “Tremont Row”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_Row