The origins of American photography : from daguerreotype to dry-plate, 1839-1885

The Resource The origins of American photography : from daguerreotype to dry-plate, 1839-1885
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The origins of American photography : from daguerreotype to dry-plate, 1839-1885
Title remainder
from daguerreotype to dry-plate, 1839-1885
Statement of responsibility
Keith F. Davis ; with contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall ; director's foreword by Marc F. Wilson
Title variation
Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Language
eng
Summary
"In this text, Keith F. Davis examines photography's social history and aesthetic development in an era of rapid national growth. He demonstrates how key themes and genres - including the business of daguerreian portraiture, the markets for Civil War images, and the art of Western landscape photography - reflected the concerns and values of nineteenth-century society. Photographers of this era expressed a new national consciousness while, at the same time, helping to shape it. They also explored the visual language of a radically new medium, laying the foundation for all of photography's subsequent history."--Jacket
Cataloging source
UKM
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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  • bibliography
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