S O L I P S I S T

WINNER at SLAMDANCE 2012 of the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short

Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang
Cast Featuring: Mary Elise Hayden, Marissa Merrill & Dustin Edward
Executive Producers: David Lyons & Andrew Huang
Producers: Laura Merians & Stephanie Marshall
Cinematographer: Laura Merians
Production Designer: Hugh Zeigler
Costume Designer: Lindsey Mortensen
Hair & Makeup Designer: Jennifer Cunningham
Sound Design & Original Score: Andrew Huang
A Moo Studios & Future You Production

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A Giroux “Daguerreotype” – The world’s oldest commercial production camera, is a wooden sliding-box camera made in Paris in September 1839 by Alphonse Giroux, the brother-in-law of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, the inventor of the first practicable photographic process. Daguerre even signed the camera to verify its authenticity.

Only a few of these cameras are known to exist worldwide and all of those are in public museums. The previously undocumented camera has been in private ownership in northern Germany for generations and is in remarkable condition given it is 170 years old.

The starting price of the auction was 200,000 euros and the amount paid by an anonymous buyer has far surpassed the previous record paid for a camera, which also boasted Westlicht, selling in 2007 for 576,000 euros a daguerreotype made by the Parisian firm Susse Freres. oc.

In picture is Peter Coeln, the CEO of WestLicht Photographica Auction Vienna, with the Giroux Daguerreotype up for auction.

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