Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Taking someones photograph is to participate in his or hers mortality,
percisely by slicing out that moment and freezing it.
Photographs testify to times relentless melt. - Susan Sontag
Images (1840-1870)
Daguerreotype - Ambrotype - Tintype - Carte De Visite
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 DAG
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 DAG
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 DAG
Extremely rare... head stand visible behind the subject.
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 Ambro
 Ambro
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Oreo/Sweetheart Case - Rare, very sought after
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 CDV
 CDV
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All Photos On This Website Are Copyrighted by me ...John Mathew Smith 2010
John Mathew Smith 14914 Ashford
Ct. Laurel, MD 20707 301.604.0664 Email:
johnmathewsmith@yahoo.com
Tin
Tin
Gemtype
Gemtype