Main entry:

Dinius, Marcy J.

Title & Author:

The camera and the press : American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype / Marcy J. Dinius.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.

Description:

308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Material texts

Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
The daguerreotype in Antebellum American popular print -- Daguerreian romanticism: The house of the seven gables and Gabriel Harrison's portraits -- "Some ideal image of the man and his mind": Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian aesthetic -- Slavery in black and white: daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- "My daguerreotype shall be a true one": Augustus Washington and the Liberian colonization movement -- Seeing a slave as a man: Frederick Douglass, racial progress, and daguerreian portraiture.

Summary:

"Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780812244045 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0812244044 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Photography in literature History 19th century.
Literature and photography United States History 19th century.
American fiction 19th century Illustrations Public opinion.
Daguerreotype United States History 19th century.
Documentary photography Social aspects United States History 19th century.
Visual communication United States History 19th century.
Public opinion United States History 19th century.
Photographie dans la littérature Histoire 19e siècle.
Littérature et photographie États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Roman américain 19e siècle Illustrations Opinion publique.
Daguerréotype États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographie documentaire Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Communication visuelle États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Opinion publique États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Daguerreotype.
Documentary photography Social aspects.
Literature and photography.
Photography in literature.
Public opinion.
Visual communication.
Presse
Daguerreotypie
Öffentliche Meinung
Drucken
Fotografie
Literatur
United States.
USA
1800-1900

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

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Material texts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285688
Call No.: BIB 225526
Status: Available