| Would-be practitioners attempted unsuccessfully to make daguerreotypes from Western manuals. |
| 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. |
| The images range from pre-Civil War daguerreotypes to modern digital images. |
| Those who mastered the rather complicated process of making daguerreotypes were awestruck that these pictures revealed details invisible to the naked eye. |
| Daguerreotypes have extreme depth and detail, together with an elusive, glittering, mirror-like quality that shifts between negative and positive images. |
| I now collect daguerreotypes, photographs taken by an early process using copper plating, and at the same time I have the latest digital camera. |
