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9780300122862

The 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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  • ISBN13:

    9780300122862

  • ISBN10:

    0300122861

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2007-10-28
  • Publisher: Nelson Atkins

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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.

Author Biography

Jane L. Aspinwall is Assistant Curator of Photography at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Table of Contents

The pioneering generation : 1839-1843p. 13
Leaders in the profession : a regional surveyp. 27
Being a daguerreotypistp. 61
The face of a nationp. 83
The rise of paper photographyp. 153
"A terrible distinctness" : photography of the Civil War era, 1861-1865p. 173
Nature and culture : scenic, topographic, and promotional viewsp. 207
A world of photographsp. 243
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