The silver canvas
Subtitle: daguerreotype masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum
By: Bates Lowry, Isabel Barrett Lowry.
Contributors: Lowry, Bates, 1923-; Lowry, Isabel.
Publisher: The Museum
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: J. Paul Getty Museum -- Photograph collections -- Catalogs.; Daguerreotype -- California -- Los Angeles -- Catalogs.; Photograph collections -- California -- Los Angeles -- Catalogs.; Daguerreotype -- History.
Description: In The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces from The J. Paul Getty Museum, Bates Lowry and Isabel Barrett Lowry describe Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's miraculous invention of the daguerreotype at the dawn of photography.

In nearly eighty examples - many never previously published - selected from the almost two thousand daguerreotypes included in the J. Paul Getty Museum's comprehensive photographs collection, the authors present the historical and artistic development of the daguerreian process, chronicling over two decades of European and American history and culture. Their narrative uncovers important new information about Daguerre's invention.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233) and index.