Daguerreotypes: someone sitting stiffly, right? Or perhaps someone standing stiffly? That’s the way we think of those small, rather elegant, 19th-century first ventures into photography. Ninety-nine percent of daguerreotypes would fit that description, says Tamera Muente, the Taft Museum of Art’s installing curator for its current show, Photographic Wonders: American Daguerreotypes from The Nelson-Atkins Museum […]
