Author: Davis, Keith F. and Jane Lee Aspinwall, et al.
Title: The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885
Description: Kansas City, Missouri / New Haven, CT / London, Hall Family Foundation in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Distributed by Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Black DJ with photo-illustration and yellow and white lettering; red boards with dark brown lettering; 328 pp (some color). "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. VG (Light edgewear/scuffing/smudging to DJ; interior is in excellent condition.) .

Keywords: Photography, American Photography, Daguerreotype, Dry-Plate ; Hallmark Photographic Collection ; ; Collections - Photography


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