Table of Contents
Silence and slow time : an introduction to the daguerreotype / John Wood -- Rembrandt perfected / Ben Maddow -- The genius of photography / Janet E. Buerger -- Mirror in the marketplace : American responses to the daguerreotype, 1839-1851 / Alan Trachtenberg -- Southworth and Hawes : the artists / Matthew R. Isenburg -- Southworth and Hawes : the studio collection / Ken Appollo -- Beard and Claudet : a further inquiry / Roy Flukinger -- Delicate and complicated operations : the scientific examination of the daguerreotype / M. Susan Barger -- Heavy lightness, serious vanity : modern daguerreotypy / Grant B. Romer.