| Would-be practitioners attempted unsuccessfully to make daguerreotypes from Western manuals. |
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| Among the highlights of Crane's collection were the fabled Bayard Album and rare daguerreotypes, including a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe. |
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| Studio photographers produced most of the earliest images using standard-sized plates for daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. |
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| Photographers often placed finished daguerreotypes in a custom velvet case with glass over the image. |
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| I now collect daguerreotypes, photographs taken by an early process using copper plating, and at the same time I have the latest digital camera. |
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| Imagine on top of this that you wanted, in fact, to mount an argument as to what makes certain daguerreotypes exceptional and others merely ordinary. |
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| Although streamlining the production of miniatures may have been one reason why Brown employed daguerreotypes, aesthetic choices may also have played a part. |
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| Those who mastered the rather complicated process of making daguerreotypes were awestruck that these pictures revealed details invisible to the naked eye. |
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| Daguerreotypes have extreme depth and detail, together with an elusive, glittering, mirror-like quality that shifts between negative and positive images. |
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