“I have been collecting daguerreotypes for fifty years…For me, there is a quality in daguerreotypes that can excite all of our emotional responses to art. There are the suggested stories – some factual, and some fantasized. There is the daguerreotypes jewel-like preciousness felt when you hold an exquisitely posed and lighted image. There is the history, sometimes there is laughter, and always there are the stories that each of us project upon these silver icons.”
Joan Murray, Backgrounds in Daguerreotypes - The Daguerreian Annual 2009/2010
