Origins of American Photography From Daguerreotype to Dry-plate, 1839-1885 the Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-atkins Museum of Art

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Gift quality, Fine. 358 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. A superior copy without defect. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Ships daily. "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 val[less]

Gift quality, Fine. 358 p. : ill. (some col. ); 31 cm. A superior copy without defect. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Ships daily. [more]

Gift quality, Fine. 358 p. : ill. (some col. ); 31 cm. A superior copy without defect. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Ships daily. "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." Contents: Director's foreword--Preface and acknowledgments--ch. 1. The pioneering generation: 1839-1843--Ideas and inventions--The daguerreotype in America: 1839--Beyond the laboratory: 1840--The foundation of a profession: 1841-43--Case studies: Southworth & Hawes and John Plumbe--ch. 2. Leaders in the profession: a regional survey--Boston and vicinity--Philadelphia and vicinity--New York City and State--The South--The West--California and the Pacific Coast--ch. 3. Being a daguerreotypist--A new profession--Secrets of the dark chamber--At work--A contentious fraternity--The daguerreian economy--Exhibitions and competitions--The language of light: commerce and art--ch. 4. The face of a nation--The cultural importance of portraiture--The portrait tradition--Illustrious Americans--Pictures and things: the human artifact--High and low: the aesthetics of portraiture--Daguerreian genres and themes--The occupational daguerreotype--Ethnicity and race--Memorial and postmortem images--The American scene--Outdoor views--Gold and the West--Comic, allegorical, and artistic works--End of an era--ch. 5. The rise of paper photography--Paper and glass in Europe--Paper photography in America--Antebellum America on paper: picture, view, and likeness--New formats: the stereograph and carte-de-visite--ch. 6. "A terrible distinctness": photography of the Civil War Era, 1861-1865--A mass market for pictures--Photography and the illustrated press--Brady, Gardner, and the aesthetics of war--Photography and the military--End game: victory, trauma, and the war of memory--ch. 7. Nature and culture: scenic, topographic, and promotional views--The art of landscape--The Eastern landscape: scenic and topographic views--Yosemite and Carleton E. Watkins--The push West: troops, tracks, and treaties--Timothy O'Sullivan and the King and Wheeler surveys--William Henry Jackson and John K. Hillers: the Hayden and Powell surveys--ch. 8. A world of photographs--Napoleon Sarony and the new art of portraiture--Reality in focus--Art and invention--Instantaneous vision--The dry-plate revolution--Notes--Catalogue--Index.[less]