0354:: 1991 NEW 1st Ed. “America & the Daguerreotype” by John Wood

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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This book is an appreciation of daguerreian art which brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in color).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.

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