Mirror, Mirror
I had quite an interesting conversation with Mike King from Angel Gilding this morning. I sent him an email yesterday asking about the thickness of silver created on glass with the process his company uses. He expressed interest in the daguerreotype process and discussed it with me through several emails. The upshot was that the mirroring produced is quite thin and likely wouldn’t be suitable. As I researched it some more I even found a forum discussion on LargeFormatPhotography.com where someone had tried it. The link shows the not-too-sucessful (but lovely!) results.
Today I also ran into the website for The Daguerrian Society. This is a great resource, but has created a dilemma for me. On that site I found that a contemporary daguerreotypist by the name of Charlie Schreiner had a newsletter for a while in the late 90′s that he called The Daguerreotypist. Since I have registered that domain name for this blog already I’m not quite sure what to do. I get the sense that the world of contemporary daguerreotypists is pretty small and I wouldn’t want to offend anyone by “stealing” the name.
I will think about the issue and do some more web research.
Daguerreotype Process | andy | April 24, 2008
Irwing Pobboravsky did some successful gas with vacuum deposited silver on glass, and describes it in an article published in the Daguerreian Society Annual. Get the “Modern Daguerreotypes” reprint from the Daguerreian Society http://www.daguerre.org and you’ll find the article there.