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Opening this week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is a unique exhibition that combines the beauty of the daguerreotype process with the exploration of an early 19th Century European travelogue. Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey runs January 30 – May 12, 2019, at The Met Fifth Avenue. From 1842–1845, architectural historian Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey traveled throughout the Eastern Mediterranean on a photographic journey documenting the monuments and architecture of the ancient world. He ultimately returned with over 1,000 daguerreotypes, which are among the earliest surviving photographs of the region, and now constitute one of the world’s first photographic archives. For this video, Grant B. Romer, Founding Director of the Academy of Archaic Imaging in Rochester, New York, speaks about Girault de Prangey’s unique method for taking multiple exposures on a single daguerreotype plate, allowing him to create this enormous and important photographic archive.

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