America and the Daguerreotype
Author | : John Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Beaumont Newhall |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780486233222 |
Wonderful portraits, 1850s towns, landscapes; full text plus 104 photos. Enlarged edition.
Author | : Marcy J. Dinius |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812206347 |
Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled. Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.
Author | : Sally Pierce |
Publisher | : Steidl |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : 9783865210661 |
Essays by Brian Wallis, Grant Romer, Alan Trachtenberg, Wendy Wick Reaves and Sally Pierce.
Author | : Samuel Dwight Humphrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Kate Gillespie |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-02-19 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0262334100 |
The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as “the American process.” The daguerreotype—now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages—was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the “American process,” tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts. By the 1860s, the daguerreotype had been supplanted by newer technologies. Its rise (and fall) represents an early instance of the ever-constant stream of emerging visual technologies.
Author | : Floyd Rinhart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joan L. Severa |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780873388375 |
During the nineteenth century - a time of great technical and cultural change - fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic location, and economic standing. My Likeness Taken is a collection of daguerreotype portraits of men, women, and children taken between 1840 and 1860. Selected from the top collections in the United States, each image is analyzed to clarify datable clothing and fashion components. With subjects from among the best-dressed members of society, these portraits - reproduced in full color - reflect the latest fashion developments, trends, and influences. For students of photographic and costume history, this is extraordinary material. Many of these images have never before been published, and Severa's keen analysis adds immeasurably to our understanding of the importance of dress in American society. Photo archivists and collectors, costume curators, social historians, material culturalists, and theater designers will find My Likeness Taken an invaluable resource.
Author | : Richard Rudisill |
Publisher | : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : |
"This book describes the cultural, commercial, and social aspects of the daguerreotype, including the fascinating story of the daguereotypists, their methods, their studios, and their subjects"--Cover.
Author | : Mrs. D. T. Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : |