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Daguerreotype Excursions into the Present

Photography and the tourist set out almost simultaneously on a journey through history on the threshold of modernity. They walk together and transform each other through mutual interactions. I follow these changes from the perspective of the tourist gaze, asking myself where the tourist’s gaze is directed from and what it is directed at. I search for answers in the story of a single daguerreotype of the Niagara Falls, captured in 1840 by Hugh Lee Pattinson.

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›Niagara, Chute du Fer Cheval‹, 1842, etching and aquatint, with hand- coloring, 27 × 35 cm, Graphic artist: Friedrich Salathé. From daguerreotype by Hugh Lee Pattinson. Published in Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours. Excursions daguerriennes: vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe. Paris: N.P. Lerebours, 1842. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication.
Hugh Lee Pattinson. ›The Horseshoe Falls‹, 1840. The daguerreotype has inverted sides; it is direct positive. Courtesy: Special Collections, University of Newcastle.

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