Daguerreotypes Quotes

John Ruskin

… 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)

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Men

Poison

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Louis Daguerre

…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.

Daguerreotypes

Giving

Instruments

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Edgar Allan Poe

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

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Important

Triumph

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Edward Steichen

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

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Perfect

Photography

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Gustave Flaubert

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

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Ideas

Photography

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Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Daguerreotypes

Portraits

Taken

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