Main entry:

Foresta, Merry A., author.

Title & Author:

Secrets of the dark chamber : the art of the American daguerreotype / Merry A. Foresta and John Wood.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Press, [1995].
©1995.

Description:

323 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... organized by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, an presented from June 30 to October 29, 1995"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 319) and index.
Foreword / Elizabeth Broun -- Acknowledgments / Merry A. Foresta -- Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype / Merry A. Foresta -- The Secret Revealed: Literature of the Daguerreotype / John Wood -- Nineteenth-Century Texts on the Daguerreotype. "New Discovery in the Fine Arts" / The New Yorker, April 13, 1839. New Discovery in the Fine Arts. The Daguerreotype / The New Yorker, April 20, 1839. The Daguerreotype / The Knickerbocker, December 1839. The Diary of Philip Hone. Professor Draper on the Process of Daguerreotype and its application to taking Portraits from Life / Philosophical Magazine, September 1840. Lunar Daguerreotypes / S.D. Humphrey. Rambles Among the Studios of America / John Werge. Daguerreotyping in New York / Daguerreian Journal, November 1850. Daguerreotyping / J.H. Fitzgibbon. Photography, the Handmaid of Art / J.K. Fisher. The Hillotype / L.L. Hill. A Letter / Jeremiah Gurney. The Hillotype / H.H. Snelling. Important Experiment. Daguerreotype of the Sun / Daguerreian Journal, August 15, 1851. The True Artist / Daguerreian Journal, August 1851. Hillotype / J.H. Fitzgibbon. Catalogue of Daguerreotype Panoramic Views in California / R.H. Vance. Preparing Plates by Steam / John A. Whipple. Microscopic Daguerreotypes / John A. Whipple. The Various Uses of the Daguerrean Art / Marcus Root. Photography in the United States / Photographic Art-Journal, June 1853. Qualifications of a First-Class Daguerreotypist / Marcus Root. from Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, 1853 / Solomon Carvalho. Gossip (Daguerreotypes at the Crystal Palace) / Photographic Art-Journal, September 1853. from Amusing and Thrilling Adventures of a California Artist While Daguerreotyping a Continent Amid Burning Deserts, Savages, and Perpetual Snows, And a Poetical Companion to the Pantoscope of California, Nebraska & Kansas, Salt Lake & the Mormons / John Ross Dix. The Dignity of our Art / Gabriel Harrison. Suggestions in Ladies Who Sit for Daguerreotypes / Albert S. Southworth. The Hillotype / Humphrey's Journal, August 1856. Portraiture / Rembrandt Peale. The Daguerreotype / D.D.T. Davie. An Address to the National Photographic Association, 1870 / Albert S. Southworth. An Address to the National Photographic Association, 1872 / Albert S. Southworth. Comments at the National Photographic Association, 1873 / Albert S. Southworth. The Use of the Camera / Albert S. Southworth. Still Taking Pictures: Brady, the Grand Old Man of American Photography / George Alfred Townsend. Photography, Painting and Sculpture / Albert S. Southworth. Stray Leaves from the Diary of the Oldest Professional Photographer in the World / J.J. Hawes.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

156098614X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781560986140 (cloth ; alk. paper)
093731126X (paper ; alk. paper)
9780937311264 (paper ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Daguerreotype United States Exhibitions.
Daguerréotype États-Unis Expositions.
Daguerreotype
Daguerréotype États-Unis.
United States
1839-1912

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Wood, John, 1947 January 2- author.
National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320330
Call No.: 320330
Status: Available