The Camera and the Press : : American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype / / Marcy J. Dinius.
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 daguer...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 44 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Daguerreotype in Antebellum American Popular Print
- Chapter 2. Daguerreian Romanticism The House of the Seven Gables and Gabriel Harrison's Portraits
- Chapter 3. ''Some ideal image of the man and his mind'' Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian Aesthetic
- Chapter 4. Slavery in Black and White Daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Chapter 5. ''My daguerreotype shall be a true one'' Augustus Washington and the Liberian Colonization Movement
- Chapter 6. Seeing a Slave as a Man Frederick Douglass, Racial Progress, and Daguerreian Portraiture
- Epilogue. ''An Old Daguerreotype''
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments