Bates Lowry, Isabel Barrett Lowry, "The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces"
Publisher: J. Paul Getty | 1998 | ISBN: 0892365366 | English | PDF | 256 pages | 22.86 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 contentsForeword
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
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