Look what happened when Jason Greenberg Motamedi tried making a Daguerreotype on silvered glass! He says: I made a few marginally successful Becquerel plates last year using silvered glass, however something about the traditional method (perhaps the heat of the Mercury?) caused much of the silver to flake off in the fixer. Yes! Beautiful! Long [...]

Tom Persinger of f295 writes: f295 Symposium 2008: An Examination of Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes is being held in Pittsburgh, PA USA May 29 – June 1, 2008. Here are a few of the latest announcements! The Official Symposium Hotel I’m pleased to announce that The Holiday Inn Select at University Center is [...]

Tom Persinger writes: If you’ve done all your holiday shopping and are thinking about something for yourself how about one of the many workshops being offered as part of the f295 Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes? The Symposium takes place in Pittsburgh, PA USA 26-29 April 2007. The workshops that are currently [...]

Tom Persinger of f295 writes: It’s an exciting weekend in Pittsburgh as The Daguerrian Society kicks off their symposium on Nov. 16! It’s the largest gathering of Daguerreotype collectors, practitioners and historians in the country, quite possibly the world. They have a full schedule on their website.