Not exact matches
Because
daguerreotypes drink in so much light,
exposures have to be extraordinarily long: 25 seconds, 50 seconds, and 75 seconds in this case.
None of his paintings depict any particular person, but they all have the same gaunt skeletal structure, with dark, empty eye sockets like the shaky long
exposures of a
daguerreotype photo.
For them, alternative photography represents
exposure to the entire spectrum of photographic image making, including
daguerreotype, tintype, calotype, and dry plate processes.