2025 Symposium & Photo Fair

Whether this is your first Symposium or your 37th, you won’t want to miss Hartford 2025, a celebration of 19th-century photography bringing together collectors, historians, scholars, and museum professionals from around the world. You’ll join other lovers of daguerreotypes and other early photographs gathering at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut on Thursday, September 25, with events scheduled through Saturday, September 27. 

Highlights include:

• A festive opening reception, right at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
• Talks by experts presenting important discoveries and new research, showing seldom-seen images and offering new insights into photography’s beginnings
• A photo fair with veteran dealers and newcomers offering more daguerreotypes and 19th-century photographs than can be seen anywhere. Buy, sell, trade, or just look and learn – it’s an opportunity that comes along only once a year.
• A banquet with a live auction featuring exceptional images and silent auction
• Room-hopping to catch up with friends and see what’s on the market
• And behind-the-scenes viewings of photography collections at leading cultural institutions, led by their curators

Our Symposium hotel, the Hartford Marriott Downtown, is fully booked for Thursday and Friday nights, September 25 and 26, so we have arranged a group room block at the nearby DoubleTree by Hilton Hartford Downtown.

To book your room at the DoubleTree...

Call Hilton Reservations at (800) 754-7941 and ask for The Daguerreian Society group block, or use the direct booking link: https://group.doubletree.com/uinpex.

Reserve your room early - the group rate is only available until August 13 (or until the block sells out)! You can always cancel up to 72 hours in advance without incurring a fee.

To book a room at the Hartford Marriott Downtown (e.g., for Saturday night only), click here. 

For further details, check out the Symposium & Photo Fair page!