1991 NEW 1st Ed. “America & the Daguerreotype” by John Wood .
“America and the Daguerreotype” Edited by John Wood
Published by Univ of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa (1991)
ISBN 10: 0877456755
ISBN 13: 9780877456759
New Softcover
Univ of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1991.
Paperback.
Condition: NEW. It is still in its original publishers shrink-wrap.
Dimensions: 12″H 9¾”W
This book is an appreciation of daguerreian art which brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in color). There are many interesting and compelling examples (see below for a small sample of 7 out of the 200).
Topics include:
The American Portrait…by John Wood
The Alternative Aesthetic: The Langenheim Brothers and the Introduction of the Calotype in America…by Dolores Kilgo
Landscape in Limbo…by John Stilgoe
Sex, Death, and Daguerreotypes…by David Stannard
The Progress of Civilization: The American Occupational Daguerreotype…by Brooks Johnson
Captured Without Resistance: A Social View of the American Militia…by John Graf
Silver Plates on a Golden Shore: “The Real Thing Itself”…by Peter Palmquist
The Contemporary Daguerreotype…by Jeanne Verhulst
…with notes on the plates and bibliography for further reading.
Softbound.
Copyright 1991.
273 pages.
200 photographs.
America 1991 c.Reference number: 2020.0354
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