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

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024