Daguerre

How To Use Daguerre In A Sentence

• French artist and inventor of the daguerreotype process for obtaining positive photographic prints.
• Daguerreotypes have extreme depth and detail, together with an elusive, glittering, mirror-like quality that shifts between negative and positive images.
• Caroline saw a shape, a head, that, daguerreotyped in that attitude and with that expression, would have been lovely. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
• 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
• On the eve of departure, many forty-niners also visited the daguerreian studio to have a ‘likeness’ or two taken for their closest and best-loved female companions, their mothers, wives and sweethearts.
• Between august 20 and 29, participants will be assured to, by means of workshops, practice historical analog processes such as daguerreotype, cianotype, vandyke, albumen prints, saltprints and pinhole. Photography Blog - News
• In that long, burning look, it seemed as if the emotions of each were imparted to the other, not in slow succession as through words and sentences, but daguerreotyped or electrotyped in perfected form upon the conscious understanding. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
• In a place to themselves were other treasures, a daguerreotype of his mother, a capacious huswife that Sairy had made and stocked for him, the little box of paper "to write home on" that had been Tom's present, various trifles that the three had agreed might come in handy. The Long Roll
• Photographers often placed finished daguerreotypes in a custom velvet case with glass over the image.
• Would-be practitioners attempted unsuccessfully to make daguerreotypes from Western manuals.