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America and the daguerreotype

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  • Description

    "'America and the daguerreotype' brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in full colour) as it examines the earliest photographic process and its effect on the way we view ourselves. For this collection, John Wood selected active images of ordinary Americans living and working: at weddings, river baptisms, band concerts, and political meetings, on farms and in factories.

    In the eight essays that accompany the images, leading art, photographic, and social historians provide diverse and perceptive readings of the role the daguerreotype played in shaping America's self-image."--Back cover.

  • Place
    Iowa City, Iowa, United States
  • Other Id

    TR365 AME (Library of Congress Call Number)

    87428 (Cat ID)

    87276 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    America and the daguerreotype
  • Primary Maker

    John Wood

  • Contributor/Publisher
    University of Iowa Press
  • Place
    Iowa City, Iowa, United States
  • Date
    1991?
  • Physical Description

    273 pages : illustrations 9some colour), portraits ; 27 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    0877453349
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Daguerreotype--United States--History/Library of Congress subject headings

    Photography--History--19th century

  • Content
    The American portrait / John Wood
    The alternative aesthetic : the Langenheim brothers and the introduction of the calotype in America / Dolores A. Kilgo
    Landscape in limbo / John R. Stilgoe
    Sex, death, and daguerreotypes : toward an understanding of image as elegy / David E. Stannard
    The progress of civilization : the American occupational daguerreotype / Brooks Johnson
    Captured without resistance : a social view of the American militia / John F. Graf
    Silver plates on a golden shore : "the real thing itself" / Peter E. Palmquist
    The contemporary daguerreotype / Jeanne Verhulst.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references (page 273).

  • Collection Type
    Pictorial Office
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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