[fade]Daguerreotype
ダゲレオタイプ
다게레오 타입
銀版攝影法[/fade]

〈２０１６〉

- The resistance to "Oblivion Terror" -

Daguerreotype process was the first practicable method of obtaining permanent images with a camera, in short, the first practicable photographic process in the history of the photography. It dates back to 1839.

This first photographic process requires very hazardous chemicals and it is extremely stern steps to make a silver plate sensitive to light. In addition, produced images are very fragile. However, they are simply marvelous. It seems like just life.

All living things leave offsprings. This is the principle of all living things. We are so fragile that we hope to leave offspring as a trace of self. However, only human beings have another factor why to do so, which is ego. Our egos resist from fading into oblivion. 

 In this fear of oblivion, Neanderthal man would have made a practice of burial. At the same time of acquiring a good memory skill, they encountered a fear of fading memories. Since this encounter, our egos started resisting "Oblivion Terror".

I believe that this unconscious tide constituted the source of photography. Our egos always crave for existence, immortality, and trace of oneself after death, and photography fills the craving.

The elementary particles of light "Photon" touched on me and created the image on the silver plate. I truly exist because my retina can sense the image created by the Photon. And one day, I will be said that he truly existed from people who see the image on the plate. Because, this image gets aged along with me yet it will keep alive after I am dead. I achieved this such very first self-portrait daguerreotype image by all my hand-made equipment. That was the most ineffable ecstasy ever in photographer life.

Oct 2016 

〈２０１６〉

[fade]These equipment is all hand-made.

ダゲレオタイプの道具一式はすべて自作。

다게레오 타입에 필요한 준비물을 모두 직접 제작.[/fade]

〈２０１６〉

[fade]This is a 100% self-build darkroom camera in “Giroux Daguerreotype” style
used for Daguerreotype, Wet/Dry plate process and film photography.

セルフビルドの巨大暗室カメラでダゲレオタイプを製作。

self-build의 거대 암실 카메라로 다게레오 타입 제작.[/fade]

〈２０１９〉

[fade]The first ever Daguerreotype photographs
of the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, Korea.

韓国初となる京福宮のダゲレオタイプを自作の大判カメラで製作。

직접 만든 카메라로 대한민국 최초의 다게레오 타입을 제작.[/fade]

[fade]광화문/光化門
Gwanghwamun

2017/09/23 - 18:17[/fade]

[fade]경복궁/景福宮
Gyeongbokgung Palace

2017/09/17 - 17:34[/fade]

[fade]경회루/慶會樓
Gyeonghoeru

2017/08/17 - 14:54[/fade]

[fade]근정전/勤政殿/
Geunjeongjeon

2017/08/17 - 14:05[/fade]

[fade]Left: Jeong HaengSook (정행숙)

Centre: Handmade wooden large format camera
(for Daguerreotype, Wet/Dry plate collodion and Film)

Right: Yugo Ito (Me)[/fade]

[fade]She assisted me with my Daguerreotype work and also learned it under me.
Now she has able to produce a Daguerreotype photograph by herself.
Probably, she is the first korean Daguerreotypist.
The following Daguerreotype images were made by her.

나의 어시스턴트를 하면서 다게레오 타입을 배운,
아마도 한국 처음의 다게레오타이피스트.
이하, 그녀가 제작한 다게레오 타입.[/fade]

[fade]고전 사진 기법의 촬영 의뢰는 아래 사이트로 부탁 드립니다. [/fade]