daguerreotypes

Edgar Allan Poe called the daguerreotypes miraculous beauties and photogenic drawings of absolute truth, and a few years later, Walt Whitman, then-editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, said the new art form possessed great magnetism and captured the soul of the human face.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

Edgar Allan Poe called the daguerreotypes miraculous beauties and photogenic drawings of absolute truth, and a few years later, Walt Whitman, then-editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, said the new art form possessed great magnetism and captured the soul of the human face.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

Edgar Allan Poe called the daguerreotypes miraculous beauties and photogenic drawings of absolute truth, and a few years later, Walt Whitman, then-editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, said the new art form possessed great magnetism and captured the soul of the human face.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

About the same time Daguerre published his new invention of making the sun prints which were called daguerreotypes after him.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

Her dim-lighted, low-contrast wet collodion tin types recall daguerreotypes and emit the feeling of quiet awe in discovery, with exquisitely creepy creatures from the depths, including the "Shell Octopus," "Paper Nautilus," and "Sea Horse."

Rochester City Newspaper 2009

"They are the most remarkable objects of curiosity and admiration, in the arts, that we ever beheld," wrote the editor of The Knickerbocker in December 1839 after seeing some of the first photographs known as "daguerreotypes" for their inventor, Frenchman Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre on display in New York City.

Gizmodo Bob Zeller 2010

With its nautical bells, daguerreotypes of 1920s Fiumincino, and mountains of freshly-caught fish, it is part of the town's maritime heritage that has been thriving since the Roman days when the port was built by the Emperor Trajan.

Plucking the Finest Fruits From the Sea Jemima Sissons 2011

"From today painting is dead" is an aphorism often attributed to Paul Delaroche, a 19th-century French painter, upon seeing the first daguerreotypes though Wikipedia maintains there is no compelling evidence that he actually said it.

Farewell to the fine art of focusing 2011

- Among the Civil War buffs wandering through the tables of muskets and faded daguerreotypes of Union soldiers for sale here are four federal agents.

National Archives hunts for missing treasures with recovery team 2011

She possessed his sword, there were several old-fashioned daguerreotypes, there was much that had been said of him, stories told of him — and all this had constituted the material out of which she had builded him in her childhood fancy.

Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3 2010