Engraving

Author	Honoré Daumier
Title	"Les bons bourgeois. Position la plus commode pour avoir un joli portrait au Daguerréotype"
Publication	Le Charivari (24/07/1847)
Place	Francia
Date	1847
Register	03250

The head rest was a unique device that was used in the first photographers’ studios, when the exposure time to take portraits was very long. It was used to hold the head of the photographed person from behind, motionless, while the camera shutter was open and the person portrayed had to stay in front of the camera without moving. The exposure time of a daguerreotype plate to light was initially between fifteen and thirty minutes, but after a few years it was reduced to less than one minute. The engraving by Honoré Daumier, a French engraver, caricaturist, painter and sculptor, appeared in the satirical French publication Le Charivari on July 24, 1847 and belongs to the series of engravings "Les bons bourgeois", published by this magazine.

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