Resumen de Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of L. J. M. Daguerre by Stephen Pinson (review)
After a disappointing career as a painter and set designer of no real talent, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre partnered with Nicéphore Niépce to explore the commercialization of heliography, Niépce�s recent invention. Niépce died in 1833, and in 1839, Daguerre claimed the invention of photography as his own, thus securing a generous state pension on which he retired comfortably. Or so goes the narrative against which Speculating Daguerre argues. Stephen Pinson, art historian and curator of photography at the New York Public Library, mobilizes meticulous research in archival and printed sources and visual analysis of Daguerre�s extant works to situate him and his oeuvre (drawings, pastels, dessins-fumées, paintings on canvas and glass, spectacular stage sets, the diorama, and daguerreotypes) within the context of early-nineteenth-century visual culture.
