false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223661905m/632229.jpg 632229 1 Now available in paperback, <I>America and the Daguerreotype</I> brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in full color) as it examines the earliest photographic process and its effect on the way we view ourselves. For this collection, John Wood selected active images of ordinary Americans living and working: at weddings, river baptisms, band concerts, and political meetings, on farms and in factories. <P>In the eight essays that accompany the images, leading art, photographic, and social historians provide diverse and perceptive readings of the role that the daguerreotype played in shaping America's self-image. Editor John Wood addresses the American portrait, David Stannard writes on sex and death in the daguerreotype, Peter Palmquist reviews the role of daguerreotypes in the settlement of the American West, John Stilgoe discusses landscape and daguerreotypes, Dolores Kilgo offers an alternative aesthetic to daguerreotypes, John Graf focuses on the militia as a social institution depicted visually in nineteenth-century America, Brooks Johnson deals with daguerreian images of Americans at work, and Jeanne Verhulst reveals how modern-day artists have revived the daguerreotype. 618535 1999 America and the Daguerreotype total:1|5:1| 1 5 4 0 632229 0877456755 9780877456759 1 0 5.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223661905m/632229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632229.America_and_the_Daguerreotype 5 0 false Thu Apr 23 15:46:49 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 15:46:49 -0700 2009 632229 0877456755 9780877456759 1 0 5.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223661905m/632229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632229.America_and_the_Daguerreotype 0 0 false Tue Dec 30 08:32:12 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 08:32:12 -0800 2008 632229 0877456755 9780877456759 1 0 5.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223661905m/632229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632229.America_and_the_Daguerreotype 0 0 false Fri Jun 20 10:32:24 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 10:32:24 -0700 2008 632229 0877456755 9780877456759 1 0 5.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223661905m/632229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632229.America_and_the_Daguerreotype 0 0 false Thu May 22 09:59:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 09:59:00 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=632229