America and the daguerreotype / edited by John Wood.

Title & Author:

America and the daguerreotype / edited by John Wood.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1991.

Description:

xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 273).
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.

Summary:

Now available in paperback, America and the Daguerreo-type brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in full color) as it examines the earliest photographic process and its effect on the way we view ourselves.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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0877453349 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780877453345 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0877456755
9780877456759

Subject:

Daguerreotype United States History.
Portrait photography United States History.
Daguerreotype United States.
Daguerrotype United States History.
Daguerréotype États-Unis.
Daguerréotype États-Unis Histoire.
Portraits (Photographie) États-Unis Histoire.
Daguerreotype
Daguerreotypie
Geschichte
United States
USA
Daguerreotype History United States

Form/genre:

photobooks.
History
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Wood, John, 1947 January 2- editor.
Hendel, Richard, book designer.
Kilgo, Dolores Ann, 1940- contributor.
Stilgoe, John R., 1949- contributor.
Stannard, David E., contributor.
Johnson, Brooks, 1954- contributor.
Graf, John F., 1962- contributor.
Palmquist, Peter E., contributor.
Verhulst, Jeanne, contributor.
University of Iowa Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 76786
Call No.: ID:92-B725
Status: Available

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