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

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This book is an appreciation of daguerreian art which brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in color).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