The early American daguerreotype : cross-currents in art and technology / Sarah Kate Gillespie.
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TextSeries: Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovationPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2016Description: 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262034104 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Daguerreotype -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Photographers -- United States | Photography | PhotographyDDC classification: 772.1'2 Summary: The daguerreotype - now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged 19th-century personages - was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals and mercury fumes. As this generously illustrated history shows, it was 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. This history maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to its ascendancy, while tracing its relationship to other fields and their professionalisation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The daguerreotype - now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged 19th-century personages - was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals and mercury fumes. As this generously illustrated history shows, it was 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. This history maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to its ascendancy, while tracing its relationship to other fields and their professionalisation.
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