Monthly Archives: January 2008

Daguerreotype sealing tape? Gold Chloride? The Questions Keep Rolling In

Here are my answers to some recent questions that have rolled into my inbox this week. what kind of tape do you use to seal the photos? Permacel’s J-Lar Tape from Talas. Jerry Spagnoli also suggested to me back in … Continue reading

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Contact Printing a Daguerreotype

I recently received this e-mail from ‘Greg’: I was wondering if you could elaberate [sic] on the process of contact printing. that is taking a photograph and printing it on transparent paper and some how making it into a dag. … Continue reading

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Daguerreotype Anniversary!

Our art is 169 years old as of January 7th.  It was on that day in 1839 that La Gazette de France announced to the world the process we know today as the Daguerreotype.  The article “declared the ‘invention’ to … Continue reading

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Letter to Dan’s Data

Attentive readers to the journal will know about my affinity for the Clock of The Long Now project. Being a card-carrying member of the Long Now Foundation I am constantly thinking in the long-term. Art in the long term, therefore, … Continue reading

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f295 NYC Seminar – end of January 02008

Occasionally I get e-mail that ISN’T spam. Here is an update on an upcoming event in NYC at the B&H Store. You’ll probably recognize some of the names in the list of speakers. Unless I can find a sponsor to … Continue reading

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