The Dawn of Photography
The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839–1855
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
September 23, 2003–January 4, 2004
This exhibition of some 175 works from the dawn of the photographic era is the first major survey of French daguerreotypes—magically detailed, one-of-a-kind images on silver-plated sheets of copper. For more detail visit the Met's web site.