Author: Buerger, Janet E.
Title: French Daguerreotypes
Description: Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1989. Hardcover. Gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gray and illustrated dust jacket, white lettering. xxi; 256 pp. 22 color plates, many BW illustrations. Foreword by Walter Clark, technical appendix by Alice Swan. "Lavishly illustrated, this volume is the first complete catalog of the French daguerreotype collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Janet E. Buerger uses this remarkable collection of images to produce a cultural history of the daguerreotype's most learned following--an elite group of mid-nineteenth-century intellectuals who sought to understand and develop the usefulness, potential, and beauty of this camera image. This varied group, including entrepreneurs, pinters, scientists, and historians, enables Buerger to trace the influence of photography into virtually every area of nineteenth-century European intellectual life." -- dj flap. VG/VG ownership stamp at base of copyright page very clean and unused copy .

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