These few words from Sylvie Aubenas, director of the photography department from the Bibliothèque nationale on the news of the death of Daniel Wolf: “It’s really awful. His daguerreotypes by Girault de Prangey are hung in Orsay pending the opening of the exhibition … ”
From our archives – February 11, 2019
Donald Trump has soiled the word “power” for now. But power can be a good thing. On Monday night the 28th of January, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened an exhibition of daguerreotypes by Girault de Prangey, that overnight changed the history of photography. They used their power to take a relatively unknown photographer, and thrust him into the cannon of the history of photography where he truly belongs. Rarely has power been used so effectively and efficiently and beautifully to rewrite a chapter of the history of photography.
