The American Daguerreotype
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Author | : Sarah Kate Gillespie |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-02-12 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0262034107 |
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.
Author | : Floyd Rinhart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
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Author | : Sarah Kate Gillespie |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-02-19 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0262334100 |
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.
Author | : Beaumont Newhall |
Publisher | : New York] : Duell, Sloan & Pearce |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
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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.
Author | : Samuel Dwight Humphrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
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Release | : 2002 |
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Author | : Bates Lowry |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000-02-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892365366 |
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
Author | : Samuel D. Humphrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2005-03 |
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ISBN | : 9781414251134 |
Author | : Merry A. Foresta |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Photography |
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Author | : Merry A. Foresta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
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