Giancarlo De Noia, whose artist's statement is charming: "Il mio obiettivo e' quello di realizzare una fotografia partendo dalle materie prime. My objective is to create a photograph starting from the raw materials."
Robert Schramm (also check out schrammstudio.com for a bit of a contrast)
Cris Bierrenbach. Here it's especially apparent how the Daguerreotypes' coloring alienates the subject matter—that thing in the top left could be almost anything—but you still recognize the fidelity of photography in these shots.