An edition of The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885 (2007)
The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885
The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
By Keith F. Davis
Publish Date
October 28, 2007
Publisher
Nelson Atkins,Hall Family Foundation,in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,Distributed by Yale University Press,Hall Family Foundation in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Language
eng
Pages
360
Description:
"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."--Jacket.