French daguerreotypes / Janet E. Buerger ; foreword by Walter Clark ; technical appendix by Alice Swan.

Main entry:

Buerger, Janet E.

Title & Author:

French daguerreotypes / Janet E. Buerger ; foreword by Walter Clark ; technical appendix by Alice Swan.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Description:

xxi, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Primarily a catalog of the Cromer Collection in the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: Introduction: A New Renaissance -- 1. France and the French Daguerreotype -- 2. The Art of Photography: Early Ideas -- Part Two: Nature Through the Objectif -- 3. Commercial Ventures and Travel Views: The New Documentation -- 4. Portraiture and the Professionals -- 5. Proficiency and Art: Cromer's Amateur and Iconographic Densities -- 6. Science and the Scientists in an Age of Naturalism -- Part Three: Total Realism -- 7. Naturalism and Realism in Art -- 8. Stereography -- 9. Color -- 10. Hand-Colored Stereo Daguerreotypes and the Masters of Total Realism -- Appendix I: The Sources -- Appendix II: Coloriage de Epreuves: French Methods and Materials for Coloring Daguerreotypes / Alice Swan.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0226079856
9780226079851

Subject:

Cromer, Gabriel, 1873-1934 Photograph collections Catalogs.
Cromer, Gabriele, 1873-1934.
Cromer, Gabriel, 1873-1934
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House Catalogs.
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
Daguerreotype France History.
Photography France History.
Photograph collections New York (State) Rochester Catalogs.
Daguerréotype France Histoire.
Photographie France Histoire.
Collections de photographies New York (État) Rochester Catalogues.
Daguerreotype
Photograph collections
Photography
Fotografie.
Daguerreotypie.
Daguerreotypes Histoire.
France
New York (State) Rochester
Photography History

Form/genre:

Collection catalogs
Catalogs
History
Catalogues de collection.

Added entries:

Clark, Walter, 1899-1991, writer of foreword.
Swan, Alice, contributor.
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 49473
Call No.: TR365.B8 (ID:89-B8470)
Status: Available

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