Photography and the American Scene: A So
โ Robert Taft
๐ Library
๐
1989
๐ Dover Publications, Inc.
๐ English
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Photography and the American scene: a social history, 1839-1889
โ Scribed by Robert Taft
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Year
- 1942
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 558
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
INTRODUCTION (page vii)
I "THEIR EXQUISITE PERFECTION ALMOST TRANSCENDS THE BOUNDS OF SOBER BELIEF" (page 3)
II FIRST PORTRAITS AND FIRST GALLERIES (page 22)
III THE ERA OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE (page 46)
IV DAGUERREOTYPES AND THE PUBLIC (page 63)
V DAGUERREOTYPY AT ITS ZENITH (page 76)
VI PHOTOGRAPHY (page 102)
VII THE AMBROTYPE (page 123)
VIII THE FAMILY ALBUM (page 138)
IX THE TINTYPE (page 153)
X THE STEREOSCOPE (page 167)
XI "BOSTON AS THE EAGLE AND THE WILD GOOSE SEE IT" (page 186)
XII REAL AMATEURS (page 204)
XIII CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS (page 223)
XIV PHOTOGRAPHING THE FRONTIER: FIRST PHASE (page 248)
XV PHOTOGRAPHING THE FRONTIER: SECOND PHASE (page 277)
XVI THE CABINET PHOTOGRAPH (page 311)
XVII KURTZ, SARONY, AND MORA (page 336)
XVIII A NEW AGE (page 361)
XIX THE FLEXIBLE FILM (page 384)
XX ZOOPRAXISCOPES AND LESS WORDY INNOVATIONS (page 405)
XXI PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE PICTORIAL PRESS (page 419)
APPENDIX (page 451)
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES (page 453)
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS (page 517)
TO TEXT AND NOTES (page 525)
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