Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science."
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Daguerreotypes
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Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same."
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)"
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)"
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