How to Use daguerreotype in a Sentence

daguerreotype

noun
  • Only one other Morse daguerreotype is known to exist, a portrait of a young man.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • With such a long exposure time, early daguerreotypes were a poor choice for portraiture.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
  • 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
  • Staring back in the daguerreotypes was Renty, who appeared to be about 70 at the time.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Kozachuk began her project with little hope, or even thought, of recovering the daguerreotypes.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • Winslow Homer was born shortly before the daguerreotype was introduced.
    — WSJ, 11 July 2018
  • The daguerreotype wouldn’t be the right period for Frederick.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Then there’s a lovely dissolve to a formal daguerreotype of Conan with his team, the Wabash Mashers.
    — Ramsey Ess, Vulture, 24 June 2021
  • This led to the invention of the daguerreotype, the first form of photography with practical exposure times.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
  • 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 enthusiasm for his invention, the daguerreotype, was immediate and off the charts.
    — Benjamin Wolff, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The researchers’ findings offer a powerful tool for the study of daguerreotype photography.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • The French writer Honoré de Balzac confessed to fearing that each time a daguerreotype was taken of him, a layer of his skin would be peeled off.
    — Sohini Desai, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
  • 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
  • Thomas Easterly, a Saint Louis daguerreotypist who was the master of the daguerreotype.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Although the daguerreotype required a high level of expertise, the process made the medium accessible to a wider range of enthusiasts.
    — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
  • Still, daguerreotypes caught on in the United States in the 1840s, and portrait studios seemed to be everywhere.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • 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 daguerreotype portraits, which are 175 years old, were identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather and his child.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 29 May 2025
  • The photos, called daguerreotypes, were taken in a South Carolina studio in 1850.
    — Nicole Soto, azcentral, 28 Oct. 2019
  • But in a world where the spread of technology makes photo manipulation as easy as a tap on your phone, the idea that a visual image is an absolute truth is as outdated as the daguerreotype.
    — Deepti Hajela, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Photography, in the form of the daguerreotype, arrived in the United States from France in 1839.
    — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2019
  • 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 Madison daguerreotype came to light as the sellers, whom Sotheby’s are not identifying, were cleaning out a basement after a relative had died.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • Your photograph is a daguerreotype, an example of the first commercially photographic process, and dates from the 1850s.
    — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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