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Ethereally beautiful and wonderfully anachronistic, daguerreotypy is an art of an earlier age. Founded by its namesake, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, it was the Victorian-era precursor to photography, but has since largely been forgotten and its products mainly lost. In something of a resurrection, daguerreotypy is the subject...
Although the exhibit currently resides in an art museum, daguerreotypy is as indebted to science as it is founded on aesthetics. The technique required a delicate mix of noxious chemicals, absolute stillness on behalf of the subject and precise timing from the operator. Error yielded cloudy phantom shadows, but the...
Ranging in dimensions approximately equal to a sheet of letter paper to pocket-size, smaller daguerreotypes were housed in ornate keep-safe folders that are almost as compelling as the images themselves. In this form, the plates were passed down as heirlooms from generation to generation imbuing each daguerreotype with...
Stemming from the so-called Jesus Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, this self-styled “Messianic community” believes in restorationism, a return to the primitive Jewish and Christian traditions. About 20 years ago, Elbert Spriggs and his wife founded the group as...
Rolling plains and snow-capped peaks greet you as the Charles River dips into a bend that is Harvard Square, the crown jewel of extreme southern Vermont. Home to elite Lesley College (founded in 1492 by William “John” Harvard), Harvard Square boasts staggering diversity: men...