[alt-photo] Re: Daguerreotypes as contact prints?

[Aditya Mandayam]

how long would a contact print daguerreotype exposure be?

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:15 PM, francis schanberger <frangst at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe some of Adam Fuss' daguerreotypes from 1999 "My Ghost" are
> camera-less. You may have to produce a positive transparency instead of
> negative for contact printing or the viewing angle of the daguerreotype
> might be awkward for presentation.
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> -francis schanberger
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> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Aditya Mandayam
> <mandayam at cs.stanford.edu>wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> Can a Daguerreotype be made by contact printing? Does the sensitized
>> plate have to be exposed via a (large format) camera? Any examples?
>>
>> Aditya Mandayam
>> La Paz, Bolivia
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