How to Use daguerreotype in a Sentence

daguerreotype

noun
  • Staring back in the daguerreotypes was Renty, who appeared to be about 70 at the time.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The instrument shoots X-rays at samples — in this case, a chip from the old daguerreotype.
    Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2014
  • Each of the 24 women in this church group from the town of Hampden, Mass., has her own daguerreotype portrait.
    Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Photography, in the form of the daguerreotype, arrived in the United States from France in 1839.
    Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Then there’s a lovely dissolve to a formal daguerreotype of Conan with his team, the Wabash Mashers.
    Ramsey Ess, Vulture, 24 June 2021
  • The photos, also referred to as daguerreotypes, are some of the earliest known photos of slaves.
    Sarah Jorgensen, CNN, 20 June 2019
  • And from around this time comes what is thought to be another portrait, a daguerreotype that surfaced in 2012 and is on first-time public view at the Morgan.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
  • The restoration of the cathedral began a few years after the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, and the images are some of the earliest ever taken of Paris.
    Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The end of a race routinely features skiers sprawled in the snow just across the finish line, chests heaving—the scene looks less like a sporting event than a daguerreotype of a battlefield.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The daguerreotype, on the other hand, naively reproduced every pore that met its lens.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Some of Thomas Easterly’s earliest daguerreotypes record the draining of a polluted pond in St. Louis in the 1850s.
    Pete Brook, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2014
  • The daguerreotype wouldn’t be the right period for Frederick.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Kozachuk began her project with little hope, or even thought, of recovering the daguerreotypes.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • The photos, called daguerreotypes, were taken in a South Carolina studio in 1850.
    Nicole Soto, azcentral, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Thomas Easterly, a Saint Louis daguerreotypist who was the master of the daguerreotype.
    Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 10 Mar. 2017
  • The historian’s first impression was that the man staring at him from the 1844 metal daguerreotype was not Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • With such a long exposure time, early daguerreotypes were a poor choice for portraiture.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
  • The earliest piece in the show is a small but striking daguerreotype portrait of a free man of color taken by Felix Moissenet in his Camp Street studio circa 1855.
    Sarah Bonnette, NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • This led to the invention of the daguerreotype, the first form of photography with practical exposure times.
    Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
  • In a daguerreotype taken c. 1847, Granger is pictured wearing his workman's apron.
    CBS News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Winslow Homer was born shortly before the daguerreotype was introduced.
    WSJ, 11 July 2018
  • The exhibit is the first time the Cincinnati daguerreotype has been printed on steel, using modern techniques while maintaining the feel and emotion of the original plates.
    Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2017
  • There’s a skeleton, a roaring lion—Saar is a Leo—and a daguerreotype of a white woman, a reference to Saar’s maternal grandmother, who was Irish.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Slowly the era is pieced together in lavish detail, through histories of the daguerreotype and reconstructions of the daily lives of the subjects.
    Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The discovery of a daguerreotype purportedly showing Joseph Smith has spurred questions: What did the church founder really look like?
    David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The enthusiasm for his invention, the daguerreotype, was immediate and off the charts.
    Benjamin Wolff, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Like the famous daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, the Eliot image is both familiar and elusive.
    Anna Mundow, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2023
  • They’re not meant to faithfully reproduce the daguerreotype or metal plate print, but the print itself has a kind of illumination and works with light in a way that the bodies in those spaces are kind of attuned to.
    Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The researchers’ findings offer a powerful tool for the study of daguerreotype photography.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • Your photograph is a daguerreotype, an example of the first commercially photographic process, and dates from the 1850s.
    oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2020

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