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9780914630210

Six Exposures: Essays in Celebration of the Opening of the Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780914630210

  • ISBN10:

    0914630210

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $25.00

Summary

Nineteenth-century Italian commercial photography, the family album of an amateur British photographer, French medical photography, and collecting American daguerreotypes are among the topics discussed by leading photographic historians.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Who Is the Greatest of Them All? Harrison D. Horblit, Harvard Class of 1933: Introductionp. 1
"What Would I Want with Photography? I'm Collecting History of Science!": Recalling Harrison Horblitp. 7
"Splendid Calotypes": Henry Talbot, Amelia Guppy, Sir Thomas Phillipps, and Photographs on Paperp. 21
The Regard of Mundane Miracles: The Daguerreotype Collection of Harrison D. Horblitp. 47
The Merriman Albump. 67
Roman Viewsp. 89
"Gymnastics of the Soul": The Clinical Aesthetics of Duchenne de Boulognep. 107
Indexp. 130
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