{"id":663,"date":"2007-08-13T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T19:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/motamedi-peeling-daguerreotype\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T19:24:11","slug":"motamedi-peeling-daguerreotype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/motamedi-peeling-daguerreotype\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeling Daguerreotype on silvered glass: WOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/blogimg\/motamedi-peeling-dag.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"612\" alt=\"Peeling Daguerreotype by Jason Greenberg Motamedi\" class=\"border\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Look what happened when <a href=\"http:\/\/motamedi.info\/\">Jason Greenberg Motamedi<\/a> tried making a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daguerreotype\">Daguerreotype<\/a> on silvered glass! He says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI made a few marginally successful Becquerel plates last year using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/%7Erodrimi\/Silvering.htm\">silvered glass<\/a>, however something about the traditional method (perhaps the heat of the Mercury?) caused much of the silver to flake off in the fixer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes! Beautiful! Long string of positive expletives!<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of his work at his Web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/motamedi.info\/\">motamedi.info<\/a>, and at his excellent Daguerreotype blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/daguerreotypy.blogspot.com\/\">daguerreotypy.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><strong>Further reading<\/strong>: Motamedi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/motamedi.info\/daguerreotypy.htm\">Brief Guide to Becquerel Daguerreotypy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daguerre.org\/\">The Daguerreian Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Photo &copy; copyright 2006 Jason Greenberg Motamedi. Used with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[93,95,413,837,1605],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technique","tag-alt-process","tag-alternative-process","tag-daguerreotype","tag-jason-greenberg-motamedi","tag-silvered-daguerreotype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->