Main entry:

Rinhart, Floyd.

Title & Author:

The American daguerreotype / Floyd Rinhart and Marion Rinhart.

Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1981.

Description:

x, 446 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Events leading to photography in America -- The pioneer days, 1839-1840 -- The formative years, 1841-1846 -- The years of expansion, 1847-1850 -- The affluent era, 1851-1860 -- Daguerreotype plates, apparatus, and processes -- Stereoscopic daguerreotypes -- Color and the daguerreotype -- Art influences -- Art and the portrait -- Miniature cases -- Reflections of an age -- Professional and amateur daguerreotypists -- Manufacturers and wholesale suppliers -- Case manufacturers and engravers.

Summary:

The American daguerreotype represents the culmination of more than twenty years of painstaking research by Floyd and Marion Rinhart. This single volume is a historical survey of the daguerreian art that flourished between 1840 and 1860, technical details of the daguerreotype processes including color, a discussion of the impact of the earliest photography on nineteenth-century American life and art, and a biographical listing of some 2,000 daguerreotypists and other related to the art-by far the most comprehensive list of its kind ever published.

ISBN:

0820305499
9780820305493

Subject:

Daguerreotype History.
Photography United States History.
Daguerreotype United States.
Daguerréotype États-Unis.
Photographie États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Daguerréotype Histoire.
Daguerreotype.
Photography.
Daguerreotypie.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Rinhart, Marion, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 26975
Call No.: 8480; ID:88-B12953
Status: Available

Location: Library main 26976
Call No.: PO16526; ID:88-B12953
Status: Available