Jeremiah Gurney
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In December 1850, he advertised \u00e2\u0080\u009cLikenesses on ivory, glass, and paper by GURNEY\u00e2\u0080\u0099S new process, together with an extensive collection of Daguerreotypes of distinguished persons.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Three years later, he used the term \u00e2\u0080\u009cDaguerre on paper\u00e2\u0080\u009d to describe his photographic prints."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Gurney gave equal weight to his description of the daguerreotype and the photograph in his 1856 publication, Etchings on Photography, and bristled at the notion that the works produced by a camera merely required mechanical rather that artistic skill. By 1858, when he opened his new gallery at 707 Broadway, Gurney was described as \u00e2\u0080\u009cconfin[ing] his operations to the Daguerreotype and the Photograph.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This large-format self-portrait is a fine example of his work in the latter medium."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Gurney se estableci\u00c3\u00b3 inicialmente como daguerrotipista experto, pero tambi\u00c3\u00a9n fue un pionero de la fotograf\u00c3\u00ada revelada en papel. En diciembre de 1850 anunci\u00c3\u00b3 \u00e2\u0080\u009cRetratos en marfil vidrio y papel con el nuevo proceso de GURNEY, junto a una extensa colecci\u00c3\u00b3n de daguerrotipos de personas distinguidas\u00e2\u0080\u009d. Tres a\u00c3\u00b1os m\u00c3\u00a1s tarde emple\u00c3\u00b3 el t\u00c3\u00a9rmino \u00e2\u0080\u009cDaguerre en papel\u00e2\u0080\u009d para describir sus impresiones fotogr\u00c3\u00a1ficas."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "En su publicaci\u00c3\u00b3n de 1856, Etchings on Photography (Apuntes sobre la fotograf\u00c3\u00ada), Gurney dio igual importancia a sus descripciones del daguerrotipo y la fotograf\u00c3\u00ada, y refut\u00c3\u00b3 la noci\u00c3\u00b3n de que las obras producidas por una c\u00c3\u00a1mara requirieran meras destrezas mec\u00c3\u00a1nicas y no art\u00c3\u00adsticas. Para 1858, cuando abri\u00c3\u00b3 su nueva galer\u00c3\u00ada en Broadway 707, su actividad fue descrita como \u00e2\u0080\u009cdedicada al daguerrotipo y fotograf\u00c3\u00ada\u00e2\u0080\u009d. Este autorretrato de gran formato es una fina muestra de su trabajo en este \u00c3\u00baltimo medio."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. 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