Thursday, February 22, 2024

the daguerrotype

Edgar A. Poe's daguerrotype

are you into edgar allan poe? how do you express poeian?
temporal loveliness approaches the perfection of eternal beauty, and theoretically at least the corpse of the dead woman briefly incarnates an ideality. but because death also entails physiological decay, the beauty of the just-departed implies a subsequent and inevitable mutation to loathsomeness…. 

daguerreotype is a unique photographic image allowing no reproduction of the picture. the image is formed by amalgam i.e. a combination of mercury and silver. 


 poe's last epitaph.