The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885
Subtitle: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Contributors: Jane L. Aspinwall (Contributor)
Publisher: Nelson Atkins; Hall Family Foundation; in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Distributed by Yale University Press; Hall Family Foundation in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Published: October 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780300122862
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Photography & Photographs; c 1800 to c 1900; Photography; Photo Techniques; USA; Criticism; History; Photography / History
Description: "In this text, Keith F. Davis examines photography's social history and aesthetic development in an era of rapid national growth. He demonstrates how key themes and genres - including the business of daguerreian portraiture, the markets for Civil War images, and the art of Western landscape photography - reflected the concerns and values of nineteenth-century society. Photographers of this era expressed a new national consciousness while, at the same time, helping to shape it. They also explored the visual language of a radically new medium, laying the foundation for all of photography's subsequent history."--Jacket.