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America and the Daguerreotype

by Wood, John - Editor; Text by John Wood, David E. Stannard, John R. Stilgoe, Dolores Kilgo, John F. Graf, Brooks Johnson, Peter E. Palmquist and Jeanne Verhulst

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University of Iowa Press, 1999. Oversized trade paperback. First edition Near Fine with only light shelf wear. 263 pages; 28 color and 72 duotoned b&w photographic plates and 109 b&w photographic reproductions; 9 x 10.5 inches. Includes notes on the plates and bios of the contributors and a selected bibliography. Out of Print. America and the Daguerreotype examines the earliest photographic process and its effect on the way we view ourselves. Wood selected active images of ordinary Americans living and working. In the eight essays that accompany the images, leading art, photographic, and social historians cover such subjects as the American portrait, sex and death, the role of daguerreotypes in the settlement of the American West, the landscape, an alternative aesthetic to daguerreotypes, the militia as a social institution depicted visually in nineteenth-century America, images of Americans at work, and how modern-day artists have revived the daguerreotype. Daguerreotypists reproduced include Southworth & Hawes, Marcus Aurelius Root and Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. Nudes. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging.

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