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| Dr Samuel A Bemis View of Barn in New Hampshire ca. 1840 daguerreotype Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard Louis Dodier as a prisoner 1847 daguerreotype Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
"Drink nothing but this water, live upon chocolate; tomorrow I shall do everything in the world to get some bread to you, I shall mark it on each side with little crosses in ink. It is a terrible thing to say, but you must know it, perhaps Barbone has been ordered to poison you."
"Poison! Beware of water, wine, everything; live upon chocolate, try to make the dog eat your untouched dinner; you must not appear distrustful, the enemy would try some other plan. Do nothing foolish, in Heaven's Name! No frivolity!"
And indeed, every fortnight, one saw a fresh rumor come to birth in Parma announcing the death of Fabrizio in the near future. This talk plunged the unhappy Duchessa in the utmost despair.
Conte Mosca believed that he could rely upon the future Barone Riva, he was afraid only of poison; Barbone's attempt had greatly alarmed him, and to such a point that he had determined to risk taking a step which, to all appearance, was an act of madness. One morning he went to the gate of the citadel and sent for General Fabio Conti, who came down as far as the bastion above the gate; there, strolling with him in a friendly fashion, he had no hesitation in saying to him, after a short preamble, acidulated but polite: 'If Fabrizio dies in any suspicious manner, his death may be put down to me; I shall get a reputation for jealousy, which would be an absurd and abominable stigma and one that I am determined not to accept. So, to clear myself in the matter, if he dies of illness, I shall kill you with my own hand; you may count on that.' General Fabio Conti made a magnificent reply and spoke of his bravery, but the look in the Conte's eye remained present in his thoughts.
– passages from Chapter 19 of The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, published in 1839, exactly contemporary with the invention of the daguerreotype (old world neatly overlapping new). The translation is by the great C.K. Scott Moncrieff and first appeared in 1924.
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| Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe 1920 platinum print George Eastman House, Rochester, New York |
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| Paul Strand Portrait, New York 1916 platinum print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Gertrude Käsebier Portrait of Gertrude Käsebier O'Malley at billiards 1909 platinum print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Tina Modotti Tree with Dog 1924 palladium print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Tina Modotti Open Door, Mexico City 1925 palladium print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Tina Modotti Rene d'Harnoncourt Puppet 1929 gelatin silver print Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Berenice Abbott Union Square, Manhattan 1936 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Armand Pierre Séguier Still-life with plaster casts ca. 1839-42 daguerreotype Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Max Dupain Sunbaker 1937 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Olive Cotton Max after surfing 1939 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey Parthenon, Athens 1842 daguerreotype Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Marc-Antoine Gaudin Burial of the Duke of Orléans, with Notre Dame draped 1842 daguerreotype Musée d'Orsay, Paris |