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“With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.”

Looks Done Able Taken Portraits Being Done Daguerreotypes

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.”

Important Modern Extraordinary Triumph Modern Science Daguerreotypes

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.”

“An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.”

Wells Reality Seems Space Brain Chains Electric Cunning Vibrate Semblance Daguerreotypes

Book:The Journalism: 1834-1846

Source: The Journalism: 1834-1846

“... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)”

Men Given Century Terrible Rate Poison Antidote Nineteenth Century Daguerreotypes

Book:Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites

Source: Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites

“DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)”

Made Ideas Painting Photography Notes Dictionary Daguerreotypes

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself.”

Giving Process Draws Instruments Contrary Chemicals Daguerreotypes

Author:Louis Daguerre

“I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.”

People Knows Years Mind Wells Two Remember Half Childhood Two Years Recollection Two Year Olds Daguerreotypes

Author:Orson Welles

“Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”

World Writing Mind Form Culture Literature Possibility Elements Blow Assumption Collectives Heritage Imperatives Transparency Homo Sapiens Interacting Daguerreotypes

Author:Rosy Cole

“A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.”

Kind Made Perfect Photography Photograph Daguerreotypes

Author:Edward Steichen