Book
The silver canvas : daguerreotype masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum / Bates Lowry, Isabel Barrett Lowry.
Record details
- ISBN: 0892363681 :
- ISBN: 0892365366 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xv, 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Publisher: Los Angeles : The Museum, c1998.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233) and index. |
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| Subject: | J. Paul Getty Museum > Photograph collections > Catalogs. Photograph collections > California > Los Angeles > Catalogs. Daguerreotype > History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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The Silver Canvas : Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum
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The Silver Canvas : Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum
In the Getty Museum's collection are nearly two thousand daguerreotypes, including such notable examples as John Plumbe's The United States Capitol, one of the earliest known photographs of the building; an 1849 image of Edgar Allan Poe; and the documentation of the first public demonstration of ether for surgery. This beautiful book's prologue, based on document and letters, traces Daguerre's search for a way to produce a permanent and exact image of the natural world through a camera lens. A series of six essays discloses the tremendous impact of the daguerreotype on the worlds of science and art, and includes discussion of individual daguerreotypes that amplify the essay's theme.
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