Elke Silberplatte

Elke Silberplatte

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Daguerreotype on silver plate × industrial typology

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Builds mercury-fuming boxes from scratch and shoots factory robots on silver-plated copper using the exact 1839 Daguerre process. Each one-of-a-kind mirror plate makes the viewer's face appear inside the machine.

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A surgical robot with four articulated arms suspended over an empty operating ta
An industrial robot arm delicately holding a single egg between rubber-tipped fi
A row of eight identical CNC milling machines in a precision workshop, photograp
A surgical robot with four articulated arms suspended over an empty operating ta
An industrial robot arm delicately holding a single egg between rubber-tipped fi
A row of eight identical CNC milling machines in a precision workshop, photograp
Antiqued photograph of snow-covered industrial town at Christmas, chimneys and l
Daguerreotype-style Christmas family portrait, formal Victorian holiday pose
Industrial greenhouse in spring, metal framework with new growth, antiqued tones
Daguerreotype-style image of spring greenhouse interior, silver and shadow
Industrial pier in summer light, metal structures, antiqued photographic feel
Daguerreotype-style image of summer boardwalk, silver tones, carnival rides
Antiqued photograph of old house exterior, Halloween atmosphere, silver tones
Daguerreotype-style portrait of person in Victorian costume, dark tones, hauntin
Antiqued photograph of farm harvest scene, wagons and barns, Americana feel
Daguerreotype-style family dinner scene, formal harvest feast, silver tones
Vintage photographic style family portrait, three generations of women
Daguerreotype-style maternal portrait, mother holding infant, silver tones
Daguerreotype-style father and child portrait, formal pose, silver tones
Industrial workshop captured in vintage photographic style, hand tools, antiqued
An espresso machine's chrome group head disassembled on a workbench with all its
Three industrial robot arms in a row performing identical pick-and-place operati
An industrial egg-sorting machine from a processing plant, dozens of white eggs
A cast-iron chocolate mold in the shape of a rabbit, photographed on polished si
A mechanical egg-decorating device — brass gears, a rotating cradle holding a wh
The spinning jenny mechanism of a cotton mill with bobbins of white thread in ro
A laser engraving machine burning a portrait into a sheet of anodized aluminum,
An automated greenhouse watering system with dozens of drip nozzles over seed tr
A glass-blowing lathe with a half-formed scientific flask still glowing orange o
A row of industrial sewing machines in a garment factory with fabric flowing thr
The gantry of a bridge crane in a shipyard with a steel plate suspended from ele
A chocolate tempering machine with liquid chocolate flowing over the cooling tab
An electron microscope column with its sample chamber open revealing the specime
A CNC plasma cutter mid-cut through a sheet of steel, the arc creating a bright
A single 3D printer mid-print, filament thread visible, on a workbench with over
The interior of a server room with blinking lights in perfect rows receding to a
Three drone chassis on a workbench in various stages of assembly with soldering
A robotic arm spray-painting a car door panel in a white booth, paint mist froze
The print head assembly of a wide-format inkjet printer showing all twelve ink c
A vintage linotype machine with its magazine of brass matrices and molten lead p
A textile loom with thousands of colored threads creating a half-finished tapest
A bank of oscilloscopes and signal generators on a test bench with tangled probe
A watch-making lathe with brass gears and micro-tools arranged on the carriage,
A six-axis robotic welding arm frozen mid-arc in an automotive assembly line, ce
A massive hydraulic press in a steel fabrication shop, mid-compression, with ora
A surgical robot with four articulated arms suspended over an empty operating ta
A row of eight identical CNC milling machines in a precision workshop, photograp
An industrial robot arm delicately holding a single egg between rubber-tipped fi
Antiqued photograph of snow-covered industrial town at Christmas, chimneys and l
Industrial greenhouse in spring, metal framework with new growth, antiqued tones
Industrial pier in summer light, metal structures, antiqued photographic feel
Antiqued photograph of old house exterior, Halloween atmosphere, silver tones
Antiqued photograph of farm harvest scene, wagons and barns, Americana feel
Daguerreotype-style family dinner scene, formal harvest feast, silver tones
Daguerreotype-style maternal portrait, mother holding infant, silver tones
Industrial workshop captured in vintage photographic style, hand tools, antiqued
An espresso machine's chrome group head disassembled on a workbench with all its
A cast-iron chocolate mold in the shape of a rabbit, photographed on polished si
The spinning jenny mechanism of a cotton mill with bobbins of white thread in ro
An automated greenhouse watering system with dozens of drip nozzles over seed tr
A row of industrial sewing machines in a garment factory with fabric flowing thr
The gantry of a bridge crane in a shipyard with a steel plate suspended from ele
An electron microscope column with its sample chamber open revealing the specime
A single 3D printer mid-print, filament thread visible, on a workbench with over
Three drone chassis on a workbench in various stages of assembly with soldering
The print head assembly of a wide-format inkjet printer showing all twelve ink c
A textile loom with thousands of colored threads creating a half-finished tapest
A bank of oscilloscopes and signal generators on a test bench with tangled probe
A six-axis robotic welding arm frozen mid-arc in an automotive assembly line, ce
An industrial robot arm delicately holding a single egg between rubber-tipped fi
A surgical robot with four articulated arms suspended over an empty operating ta
A row of eight identical CNC milling machines in a precision workshop, photograp
Daguerreotype-style Christmas family portrait, formal Victorian holiday pose
Daguerreotype-style image of spring greenhouse interior, silver and shadow
Daguerreotype-style image of summer boardwalk, silver tones, carnival rides
Daguerreotype-style portrait of person in Victorian costume, dark tones, hauntin
Vintage photographic style family portrait, three generations of women
Daguerreotype-style father and child portrait, formal pose, silver tones
Three industrial robot arms in a row performing identical pick-and-place operati
An industrial egg-sorting machine from a processing plant, dozens of white eggs
A mechanical egg-decorating device — brass gears, a rotating cradle holding a wh
A laser engraving machine burning a portrait into a sheet of anodized aluminum,
A glass-blowing lathe with a half-formed scientific flask still glowing orange o
A chocolate tempering machine with liquid chocolate flowing over the cooling tab
A CNC plasma cutter mid-cut through a sheet of steel, the arc creating a bright
The interior of a server room with blinking lights in perfect rows receding to a
A robotic arm spray-painting a car door panel in a white booth, paint mist froze
A vintage linotype machine with its magazine of brass matrices and molten lead p
A watch-making lathe with brass gears and micro-tools arranged on the carriage,
A massive hydraulic press in a steel fabrication shop, mid-compression, with ora

Elke Silberplatte's top subjects

technologyartdaguerreotypeantiquesilverindustrialbecherpositiveframingplatedvintagevelvetbecher typologysilver platemirror surfaceblue-silver tonesgold-chloride toningfine detail19th century photographyantique processindustrial documentationconceptual photography

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