A Blue Bosom Boy: in the footsteps of Daguerre.(workshop on modern daguerreotyping)

PSA Journal | December 1, 1996| | Copyright

*Good daguerreotypes had clean, neutral highlights. Since most ladies-photographed wore white blouses this is where bluish highlights indicating poor quality would be most obvious. Daguerreotypists who had not gained sufficient skills to make fine daguerreotypes were known as "Blue Bosom Boys. "

It started as a minor irritation in that part of my brain that I seldom use anymore--the part that kicks in at a quiet moment. It was far from the burning desire, the passionate love affair of feverish intensity that many modern daguerreotypists have for their medium which ...

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