San Francisco album : photographs of the most beautiful views and public buildings / George Robinson Fardon ; with contributions by Rodger C. Birt [and others].

Main entry:

Fardon, G. R., photographer.

Title & Author:

San Francisco album : photographs of the most beautiful views and public buildings / George Robinson Fardon ; with contributions by Rodger C. Birt [and others].

Publication:

Description:

174 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, June 3-Aug. 14, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references.
George Robinson Fardon : photographer / Peter E. Palmquist -- The San Francisco album and its historical moment : photography, vigilantism, and western urbanization / Rodger C. Birt -- Narrative and illusion : harnessing the visual imagination / Joan M. Schwartz -- Catalogue raisonné of Fardon's San Francisco views / Marvin R. Nathan.
Dust jacket.
CCA mentioned in acknowledgements.

Summary:

In the early 1850s, a British photographer arrived in San Francisco and became fascinated with the changing face of the city, which he captured in some of the earliest photographs on paper ever made in the United States. George Robinson Fardon's San Francisco Album documents a time of rapid growth and burgeoning prosperity in the wake of the California Gold Rush. As the earliest published photographic record of an American city, it is a work of both historic signficance and pioneering artistry.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0811826309
9780811826303
1881337065
9781881337065

Subject:

Fardon, George Robinson, 1807-1886 Expositions.
Fardon, G. R.
Buildings.
San Francisco (Calif.) History 19th century Pictorial works.
San Francisco (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
San Francisco (Calif.) Histoire 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
San Francisco (Calif.) Constructions Ouvrages illustrés.
California San Francisco.
English Photographers.
Architecture (object genre) United States California San Francisco 1850-1860.
Architecture (object genre) Canada British Columbia Victoria 1860-1870.
Photography United States California San Francisco 1850-1860.
Photography Canada British Columbia Victoria 1860-1870.
Wet collodion process United States California San Francisco 1850-1860.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Catalogues raisonnés.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History.
Pictorial works.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Birt, Rodger C.
Fraenkel Gallery.
Hans P. Kraus, Jr. (Firm)
Centre canadien d'architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202137
Call No.: TR140.F221 S3 1999
Status: Available

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