Brooklyn Historical Society – Sandra Jarro

Today at the Brooklyn Historical Society I handle the daguerreotype, A type of photograph taken many years ago. The difference between that photograph and the photographs I have been taking this semester is that actual color. The daguerreotype mostly includes a pose of a person that has one unique facial expression. Or sometimes of a family. Meanwhile one photograph I took included many objects such as flowers, grass, trees, or even people. The daguerreotype is also a one colored image, black and white, but the images I took are colorful. Another difference would be the single size of the daguerreotype which was small but my image can be sized however I want.
I learned that the people posing in the daguerreotype had to keep a pose for about 20 seconds, no movement whatsoever. Then that photo was processed through many chemicals in order to have the final result. The experience in taking that photograph I believe was way more harder than the regular photos we take today. For example some of the photos I have taken were shots I believed were good enough to portray an element we learned in class. Also, those photos where taken in one single shot and at one time.