Silver Canvas: Daguerreotypes Masterpieces

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Название: Silver Canvas: Daguerreotypes Masterpieces

Издательство: J. Paul Getty Museum

Автор: Bates Lowry, Isabel Barrett Lowry

Год: 1998

Количество страниц:256

Язык:English

Формат: pdf

Размер:22,8 Mb

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Deborah Gribbon

Preface

Weston Naef

Introduction

Prologue

The Origins of Daguerreotype

The Magician of Light

Fortified Vision

The Dream Has Come To Pass

The Secret Is Disclosed

Chapter 1

The World Poses for the Sun

Chapter 2

Stealing From the Mirror

Chapter 3

The Artificial Retina

Chapter 4

An Intruder in the Realm

Chapter 5

Capturing the Moment

Chapter 6

A Nation in Transition

Notes

Roster of Daguerreian Makers in the Getty Museum Collection Complied by Michael Hargraves

Selected Bibliography

Index