Contributions

  • Jane L. Aspinwall (Contributor) - Contributor

Publication

2007-10-28 - Distributed by Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

90,000 words, Guess

Page Count

360 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCTR15
  • LCCTR23 .D387 2007
  • LCCTR23 .H35 2007

Description

"In this text, Keith F. Davis examines photography's social history and aesthetic development in an era of rapid national growth. He demonstrates how key themes and genres - including the business of daguerreian portraiture, the markets for Civil War images, and the art of Western landscape photography - reflected the concerns and values of nineteenth-century society. Photographers of this era expressed a new national consciousness while, at the same time, helping to shape it. They also explored the visual language of a radically new medium, laying the foundation for all of photography's subsequent history."--Jacket.

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