Invisible Histories

New blog added to the Invisible Histories blogroll: My Daguerreotype Boyfriend – “Where early photography meets extreme hotness.”

I don’t have much to say about this one, other than: hilarious! And gazing upon the fine men on this new blog makes for a most welcome break from the hundreds of hours I’ve by now spent scanning, squinting at and researching old family photos in the hopes of identifying yet one more. Because the bulk of the family photos were taken during times when the subject had to sit still for long periods, the expressions are often stiff and dour. Yet the photos on the MDB blog are – as they say – quite easy on the eyes. And the writing both excellent and entertaining.

Photographer Robert Cornelius, abt 1839. Photo courtesy the Library of Congress

Go. You won’t regret it.

For more daguerreotype browsing fun, check out the Library of Congress’s website “America’s First Look Into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864.”

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