Natural magic
Subtitle: salted paper prints in North America
Contributors: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Publisher: Santa Barbara Museum of Art in association with the University of Washington Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780295994901
Subjects: Photography; Printing papers; Printing processes; History
Description: The salted paper print process and the daguerrotype were invented, for all practical purposes, simultaneously. Though using different materials and methods (the salted paper print was patented, while daguerreotype was not) still both achieved the miracle of fixing an image from life within a substrate - in other words, they ushered in the medium of photography. This volume offers new views on the use and employment of the salted paper print in North America. The hope is that this publication will encourage investigation, for the history of photography has many areas of terra icognita yet to discover.
Notes: " ... fifth and last in the [Santa Barbara Museum of Art's] series of nineteenth-century photographic explorations"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-143).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the North American salted paper print / by Keith F. Davis; title: The salted paper print : shaping the Mexican socio-politcal climate / by Lisa Volpe; title: Obscure histories : the salted paper print in the United States / by Russell Lord; title: The human and natural resources revealed in Canadian salted paper prints / by Jordan Bear.