https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/files/original/3/5072/Daguerre-Balzac[L].jpg 7508ca6b11c0939832389ec796d3b359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Covering Photography Main Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Author Author of the book upon which the photograph appears Balzac, Honoré de Photograph Title Title of photograph Parisian Boulevard 1839 (detail) Book Genre Novel Photo Genre Genre of Photograph Daguerreotype Photographer Photographer Daguerre, Louis Jacque Mandé Designer Designer of book cover Severance, Sylvia Frezzolini Notes Notes associated with the item Honoré de Balzac and Louis Jacque Mandé Daguerre were countrymen and contemporaries; They knew each other and walked the streets of Paris at the same time. Daguerre was born twelve years earlier and lived almost a year longer. Daguerre was, of course, one of the inventors of photography, while Balzac may be called one of the fathers of the modern novel. Le Colonel Chabert, the main character in Balzac's eponymous novel, is mistakenly thought to have been killed in battle. After resurrecting himself from under a mound of corpses, he makes his way to Paris, only to be 'buried' again, this time beneath the sea of living beings who populate this growing metropolis. Daguerre made this early image, one of photography's first, in 1839, seven years after the publication of Colonel Chabert. One may imagine the stoic colonel wandering among the crowds on this tree-lined boulevard, except that in Daguerre's image, the streets are virtually empty... or are they? In fact, there were almost certainly pedestrians, wagons, coaches and carts on the street that day; the exposure, however, was so long that nothing in motion could be recorded. The only sign of life can be found in the gentleman who has stood still long enough to get his boots polished. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available New Directions Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997 Relation A related resource Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Title A name given to the resource Colonel Chabert