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Paper Promises: Early American Photography

Paper Promises: Early American Photography

Harris, Mazie M.

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral PhotographyPhotography History & Criticism

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ISBN10: 1606065491
ISBN13: 9781606065495
Publisher: Getty Pubn
Published: Mar 20 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 3.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.80 Depth: 11.30
Language: English

A gorgeously illustrated look at nineteenth-century America through the lens of paper photography

Scholarship on photography's earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negatives. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to produce photographic images on a variety of paper formats in the early decades of the medium. Paper Promises: Early American Photography presents this rarely studied topic within photographic history.

The well-researched and richly detailed texts in this book delve into the complexities of early paper photography in the United States from the 1840s to 1860s, bringing to light a little-known era of American photographic appropriation and adaptation. Exploring the economic, political, intellectual, and social factors that impacted its unique evolution, both the essays and the carefully selected images illustrate the importance of photographic reproduction in shaping and circulating perceptions of America and its people during a critical period of political tension and territorial expansion.

Due to the fragility of paper photography from this period, the works in this catalogue are rarely displayed, making the volume an essential tool for any scholar in the field and a very rare peek into the mid-nineteenth century.

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