America and the Daguerreotype by Wood, John (ed.) - 1991

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Paperback Edition. 4to. xii, 273 pp, acknowledgments, preface, The American Portrait by John Wood; The Alternative Aesthetic: The Langenheim Brothers and the Introduction of the Calotype in America by Dolores A. Kilgo; Landscape in Limbo by John R. Stilgoe; Sex, Death, and Daguerreotypes: Toward an Understanding of Image as Elegy by David E. Stannard; The Progress of Civilization: The American Occupational Daguerreotype by Brooks Johnson; Captured without Resistance: A Social View of the American Militia by John F. Graf; Silver Plates on a Golden Shore: "The Real Thing Itself" by Peter E. Palmquist; The Contemporary Daguerreotype by Jeanne Verhulst; The b&w Plates; notes on the plates, contributors, selected bibliography. First Edition, 1991. "Now available in paperback, America and the Daguerreotype brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in full color) as it examines the earliest photographic process and its effect on the way we view ourselves. For this collection, John Wood selected active images of ordinary Americans living and working: at weddings, river baptisms, band concerts, and political meetings, on farms and in factories. In the eight essays that accompany the images, leading art, photographic, and social historians provide diverse and perceptive readings of the role that the daguerreotype played in shaping America's self-image." Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Pictorial paperback..