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Post by Riley Gardner on Mar 26, 2013 17:30:40 GMT -5
Has anyone else seen this around? It's a photo of man people claim to be James Butler Bonham, including Bonham Elementary in Midland, Texas. However, photography didn't even come about in the world until, what, the 1840's? So who can this man be, and why do people automatically claim he's JBB? Attachments:
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Post by mjbrathwaite on Mar 26, 2013 20:49:47 GMT -5
Photography has been around in various forms since the 5th Century BC, and negatives were invented developed in 1835, but commercial photography wasn't around in 1836, so it seems unlikely that the photo is of Bonham.
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Post by TRK on Mar 26, 2013 20:59:25 GMT -5
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Post by Rich Curilla on Apr 3, 2013 18:04:37 GMT -5
I think Mark is correct. At least I remember the same thing from one of my books. It was the family's comment that he was a look-alike. |
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Post by Mark Barnett on Apr 6, 2013 8:42:40 GMT -5
From what I understand, the process of making a photo-type image has existed before the1830's, but no one could fix the image to where it would last. In other words, the image would fade away fairly quicky and you would be left with nothing to look at. In 1839, a Frenchman named Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the "daguerreotype" and he and his business partner had found a way to finally curing the image to stay and last forever. As far as I know, my research suggests that this photo is a relative of James Butler Bonham, perhaps a nephew. Apologies I haven't been active on this site in a long time; I'm currently trying my hand at doing comic book artwork. You can find me here: barneybluepants.deviantart.com/ |
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 6, 2013 13:02:35 GMT -5
Thanks Mark and Tom; that's good info.
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Post by TRK on Apr 7, 2013 11:37:40 GMT -5
Daguerre was making daguerreotypes by at least 1837, including various ones from that year that survive: 1839 was the year he announced to the world his invention and the manner of producing it.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 7, 2013 14:16:16 GMT -5
Remind when the early dag of the Mo was taken.
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Post by TRK on Apr 7, 2013 14:38:16 GMT -5
1849. Possibly taken by Robert Payne Kelley, whom I've documented as a daguerreian offering views of the Alamo for sale in San Antonio in December 1848.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 8, 2013 14:59:21 GMT -5
Wasn't that one "unfound" or not brought to light until about 10-12 years ago? Pretty amazing and the best evidence of what the church looked like in 1836, although not definitive. I think the place suffered a lot of damage in the 13 years before the dag was made. People seemed to have taken stones from the place for construction and others sold them to tourists as Alamo souvenirs. The same thing happened to the Roman Colosseum.
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Post by TRK on Apr 8, 2013 21:39:48 GMT -5
Dolph Briscoe bought it over two decades ago and donated it to the center named after him in 1993.
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