Download or read book A Very Good Specimen of the Daguerreotype written by Marian S. Carson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind the rediscovered picture that proved to the world that the human face could be photographed.
Download or read book To Make Their Own Way in the World written by Ilisa Barbash and published by Aperture. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the early history of photography. The fifteen daguerreotypes--made in 1850 by photographer Joseph T. Zealy--portray Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty, men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. Since 1976, when the daguerreotypes were rediscovered at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, the photographs have been the subject of intense and widespread study. To Make Their Own Way in the World features essays by prominent scholars who explore everything from the photographs' historical context and the "science" of race to the ways in which photography created a visual narrative of slavery and its effects. Multidisciplinary, deeply collaborative, and with more than two hundred illustrations, including new photography by contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems, this book frames the Zealy daguerreotypes as works of urgent contemporary inquiry. Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press
Download or read book French Daguerreotypes written by Janet E. Buerger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-11-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its introduction in 1839, the daguerreotype was hailed as a magical reflection of reality. Today, these early examples of the first practical photographic process offer fascinating windows into the past. The daguerreotypes collected here not only document the birth of photography and its aesthetic and historical legacy but also provide insight into French art and culture. Lavishly illustrated, this volume is the first complete catalog of the French daguerreotype collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Janet E. Buerger uses this remarkable collection of images to produce a cultural history of the daguerreotype's most learned following—an elite group of mid-nineteenth-century intellectuals who sought to understand and develop the usefulness, potential, and beauty of this camera image. This varied group, including entrepreneurs, painters, scientists, and historians, enables Buerger to trace the influence of photography into virtually every area of nineteenth-century European intellectual life.
Download or read book The Exhibitions and Fairs of Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association written by Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Daguerreian Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mercury Boys written by Chandra Prasad and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and the speculative collide with the modern world when a group of high school girls form a secret society after discovering they can communicate with boys from the past, in this powerful look at female desire, jealousy, and the shifting lines between friendship and rivalry. After her life is upended by divorce and a cross-country move, 16-year-old Saskia Brown feels like an outsider at her new school—not only is she a transplant, but she’s also biracial in a population of mostly white students. One day while visiting her only friend at her part-time library job, Saskia encounters a vial of liquid mercury, then touches an old daguerreotype—the precursor of the modern-day photograph—and makes a startling discovery. She is somehow able to visit the man in the portrait: Robert Cornelius, a brilliant young inventor from the nineteenth century. The hitch: she can see him only in her dreams. Saskia shares her revelation with some classmates, hoping to find connection and friendship among strangers. Under her guidance, the other girls steal portraits of young men from a local college’s daguerreotype collection and try the dangerous experiment for themselves. Soon, they each form a bond with their own “Mercury Boy,” from an injured Union soldier to a charming pickpocket in New York City. At night, the girls visit the boys in their dreams. During the day, they hold clandestine meetings of their new secret society. At first, the Mercury Boys Club is a thrilling diversion from their troubled everyday lives, but it’s not long before jealousy, violence and secrets threaten everything the girls hold dear.
Download or read book First Exhibition and Fair Second Eighth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Boston 1837 1856 written by Association of the Mechanics of Boston, afterwards Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (BOSTON, Massachusetts) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and mechanism illustrated by examples in the New York Exhibition 1853 54 written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Daguerreotype written by M. Susan Barger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-05-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our scientific work gave us the opportunity to take a new look and interpretation of the scientific and technological literature on the daguerreotype and to reevaluate its technical history.--from the Preface to the 1999 edition
Download or read book The American Amateur Photographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silver Canvas written by Bates Lowry and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Photographic Journal of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Full Description of the Daguerreotype Process written by M. Daguerre and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We give below a description of this most interesting discovery, and take great pleasure in stating that several gentlemen of this city, among whom, we may name Dr. Chilton, President Morse, and Professor Draper, have fully succeeded in procuring fine specimens of photogenic drawing, by means of this instrument. Translated from the original paper of L. J. M. Daguerre, (the inventor, ) by J. S. MEMES, L.L.D
Download or read book Exhibition and Fair of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association written by Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Abel s Photographic Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
