The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885
Keith F. Davis · 2007
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"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.
Book details
- Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Nelson Atkins
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 360
- ISBN
- 9780300122862
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