Her aim was to mimic the daguerreotype process used back then, limiting herself to one frame per sitter.

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But in that time only one of his exhibitions a history of the French Daguerreotype, shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2003 had traveled to America's shores.

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Inside, the house is a faded daguerreotype of wood-panelled walls, brown linoleum floors and a cast-iron kitchen stove.

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The group, too, looked like something just emerged from a 19th century daguerreotype.

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