Author: Floyd Rinhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The American Daguerreotype
Author: Floyd Rinhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Early American Daguerreotype
Author: Sarah Kate Gillespie
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262334100
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as “the American process.” The daguerreotype—now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages—was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the “American process,” tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts. By the 1860s, the daguerreotype had been supplanted by newer technologies. Its rise (and fall) represents an early instance of the ever-constant stream of emerging visual technologies.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262334100
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as “the American process.” The daguerreotype—now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages—was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the “American process,” tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts. By the 1860s, the daguerreotype had been supplanted by newer technologies. Its rise (and fall) represents an early instance of the ever-constant stream of emerging visual technologies.
The Daguerreotype in America
Author: Beaumont Newhall
Publisher: New York] : Duell, Sloan & Pearce
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Newhall discusses the initial introduction of the daguerreotype in America in 1839, the beginnings of the daguerreotype industry, the entrepreneurs and innovators, the incredible Broadway daguerreotype galleries, the explorers, the quest for a color process, and more. In America, Daguerre's initial technique became greatly modified; the new process that evolved is described in detail in a special chapter. Originally published in 1961, this third edition contains all of the original text and illustrations plus sixteen additional pages of plates, corrections, and minor text revisions.
Publisher: New York] : Duell, Sloan & Pearce
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Newhall discusses the initial introduction of the daguerreotype in America in 1839, the beginnings of the daguerreotype industry, the entrepreneurs and innovators, the incredible Broadway daguerreotype galleries, the explorers, the quest for a color process, and more. In America, Daguerre's initial technique became greatly modified; the new process that evolved is described in detail in a special chapter. Originally published in 1961, this third edition contains all of the original text and illustrations plus sixteen additional pages of plates, corrections, and minor text revisions.
American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
Author: Samuel Dwight Humphrey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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America and the Daguerreotype
Author: John Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The American Daguerreotype
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
Author: Samuel D. Humphrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781414251134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781414251134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Secrets of the Dark Chamber
Author: Merry A. Foresta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Camera and the Press
Author: Marcy J. Dinius
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled. Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled. Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.
Young America
Author: Sally Pierce
Publisher: Steidl
ISBN: 9783865210661
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Essays by Brian Wallis, Grant Romer, Alan Trachtenberg, Wendy Wick Reaves and Sally Pierce.
Publisher: Steidl
ISBN: 9783865210661
Category : Daguerreotype
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Essays by Brian Wallis, Grant Romer, Alan Trachtenberg, Wendy Wick Reaves and Sally Pierce.