The American Daguerreotype.
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R010846 Ned. Fotomuseum $HIST RINHART.F 1981
TitleThe American Daguerreotype.
Author
Place of publicationAthens
PublisherUniversitity of Georgia Press
Year of publication1981
Pagination446
IllustrationsZwart-Wit en kleur
DimensionsA4
MaterialTekstboek
Document TypeBook
ISBN0-8203-05499
External document
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Bibliographic Notescb; index, glossarium, notes, appedices, biographies;
Abstract
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Here, in a single volume, is a historical survey of the daguerreian art that flourished between 1840 and 1860, technical details of the daguerreotype processes including color, a discussion of the impact of the earliest photography on nineteenth-century American life and art, and a biographical listing of some 2,000 daguerreotypists and others related to the art — by far the most comprehensive list of its kind ever published."
"The American Daguerreotype represents the culmination of more than twenty years of painstaking research by Floyd and Marion Rinhart, already known to collectors, art historians, and others for their earlier books on the history of photography."
"The authors have devoted considerable attention to the images themselves, to the thinly silvered copper plates and their makers, to the experiments by Levi Hill and others with color, to the influences that shaped such things as lighting and posing. Their compilation of all known hallmarks will be enormously useful for the archivist and the collector. One chapter is devoted to the miniature cases which contained the images."
"The book is richly illustrated with representative examples of the daguerreotype which the authors have selected carefully. Their aim has not been to show merely the best of the daguerreotypes but instead the great range of possibilities—from images of mediocre quality by unknown itinerants to the work of important American daguerreotypists such as Southworth & Hawes and Mathew Brady."
"The American Daguerreotype is certain to become a standard reference work. With students of the history of photography and custodians of daguerreotype collections in mind, the Rinharts have brought together a wealth of information that will open exciting new avenues for further study. Historians of the period will appreciate the social history in this volume and the role of the daguerre-otypist in capturing the character of an era's people—the first exact image of an age."
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Here, in a single volume, is a historical survey of the daguerreian art that flourished between 1840 and 1860, technical details of the daguerreotype processes including color, a discussion of the impact of the earliest photography on nineteenth-century American life and art, and a biographical listing of some 2,000 daguerreotypists and others related to the art — by far the most comprehensive list of its kind ever published."
"The American Daguerreotype represents the culmination of more than twenty years of painstaking research by Floyd and Marion Rinhart, already known to collectors, art historians, and others for their earlier books on the history of photography."
"The authors have devoted considerable attention to the images themselves, to the thinly silvered copper plates and their makers, to the experiments by Levi Hill and others with color, to the influences that shaped such things as lighting and posing. Their compilation of all known hallmarks will be enormously useful for the archivist and the collector. One chapter is devoted to the miniature cases which contained the images."
"The book is richly illustrated with representative examples of the daguerreotype which the authors have selected carefully. Their aim has not been to show merely the best of the daguerreotypes but instead the great range of possibilities—from images of mediocre quality by unknown itinerants to the work of important American daguerreotypists such as Southworth & Hawes and Mathew Brady."
"The American Daguerreotype is certain to become a standard reference work. With students of the history of photography and custodians of daguerreotype collections in mind, the Rinharts have brought together a wealth of information that will open exciting new avenues for further study. Historians of the period will appreciate the social history in this volume and the role of the daguerre-otypist in capturing the character of an era's people—the first exact image of an age."
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For facsimile view of Table of Contents please click URL
| Copy number | R010846 |
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| Shelf mark | $HIST RINHART.F 1981 |