Daguerreotypes: Early photographer, St. Louisan Thomas Easterly | Living St. Louis

Daguerreotypes: The first photographic method was difficult to master, but St. Louisan Thomas Easterly left a body of work that is still admired today for its artistry and historic significance. From Jim Kirchherr on Living St. Louis circa 2007.

[@NeTxGrl]

I get emotional when I view old photographs knowing all these people have passed on who once led lives like we do.

[@megansfo]

Fascinating trip back in time! The portraits were wonderful, and the photographer did live to be 73, a long life in those days!

[@LittleTut]

I always love looking at old photos of America, daguerreotypes, etc. 😊

[@2Beigatti]

Thanks for reposting 😄 we loved learning about this and seeing all the amazing photos!

[@deealex1402]

as a photographer myself, i find this people fascinating and the history.

[@catmomjewett]

Great. Thank you. They are beautiful and I appreciate his valuing of the course of history as a photographic subject.

[@deborahskyrim1314]

I freakin looooooove old photography so mesmerizing... Wondering what kind of lives people had .. were they sad or happy ...

[@ThymeBottle]

How appropriate, and how interesting it is to hear a version of Procol Harum's "Too Much Between Us" (from the album, A Salty Dog) at the beginning of this fascinating video. The images that Easterly recorded, his aesthetics as an 'artist', and the histories of the subjects which he included with those images, provide a glimpse into a world far removed from our own, yet somehow familiar.

[@thomaszaccone3960]

That black lady at the beginning was beautiful.

[@cosmo9390]

I think she was only part black, maybe mixed with European ancestry.

[@blueneptune825]

She was truly striking.

[@clearlake3492]

Fascinating.

[@Ivehadenuff]

This was fascinating.

[@ladyjane9980]

We have a lot of Memento Mori on my fathers side of the family. The photos were proudly displayed among photos of the living in our home.

[@sammic974]

fascinating.

[@bartobruintjes7056]

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (France) was the inventor of photography.

[@solinvictus39]

Stop it! We all know that black folks invented photography.

[@shable1436]

He took a picture of the first lightening strike

[@RhinestoneDjango]

There were probably lightening strikes prior to that one.

[@runnyhunny786]

If anyone is interested in the past they might want to take a trip to Liverpool in England where apparently a number of people claimed to have a genuine " time slip " experience on a particular street where they seemed to have slipped back in time to somewhere in the 1800's. One man even included detailed accounts of the claims of the area in a book he wrote. 🎩🧤🔎⏳

[@fatpie2.0]

i hope you're joking