American Archives
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780691004778
Subjects: Black studies; Cultural studies; Gender Studies; Multicultural studies; Photography & Photographs; Social groups & communities; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Art And Society; Portraiture; Photography; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Mass Media - General; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; 19th century; History; Portrait photography; Social classes; United States
First sentence: IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S House of the Seven Gables, Holgrave describes daguerreotypy as a process of making pictures "out of sunshine" and asserts," There is a wonderful insight in heaven's broad and simple sunshine.