Speculating Daguerre : art and enterprise in the work of L.J.M. Daguerre /
Pinson, Stephen C.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The reign of speculation -- Operatic enterprises -- The panorama effect -- Lookers -- Optical naturalism -- Theatrical landscapes -- The museum as laboratory -- Nature's palette: fixed and modifiable views -- An artist's "fortune" -- 1814-1825 -- 1825-1830 -- 1830-1839 -- Speculating Daguerre -- Counterproof -- Permanence -- Monuments -- A catalogue of works attributed to Daguerre -- Works on paper -- Paintings -- Daguerreotypes -- Appendix 1: Daguerre's addresses in Paris -- Appendix 2: chronology -- Appendix 3: a primer on the early history of photography..
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
Photography