The Market for Daguerreotypes and Cased Images, Or How We Got to Where We Are by Will Stapp, Denise Bethel, Chris Mahoney, Daile Kaplan, and Wes Cowan

Speakers: Will Stapp, former Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery; Denise Bethel, former Head of Photographs, Sotheby’s New York; Chris Mahoney, Senior International Specialist, Photographs, Phillips; Daile Kaplan, former Head of Photographs, Swann Auction Galleries; Wes Cowan, Founder, Cowan’s Auctions and Vice Chair, Hindman Auctions (moderator) An all-star panel of leading auction house experts in a free-wheeling review of the discovery of daguerreotypes by museums and auction houses and their rise in the marketplace since the 1970s. Q&A follows. Presented at the 2021 Daguerreian Symposium on October 16, 2021.