The Daguerreotype: Contemporary work by Jonathan Danforth

4-15-2006

I was featured in the Durham Herald-Sun last Sunday. The article was an introduction to the Daguerreotype process and some insight into my weird thought process. The author of the article and the photographer spent several hours with me while I made a Daguerreotype that ultimately failed to work like I hoped. Halfway through an 80 minute exposure, something (more…)

4-4-2006

I have added a Links page to the site so that you can contact some of the companies that cater to my Daugerreotype needs and see some of the people and things that interest me.

I have been busy making cases for the past week and experimenting with silver electroplating. The electroplating did not go very well but (more…)