No image available

The camera and the press: American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype

By

Contents

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.

Publisher

  • Publication

    Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012

Is about

  • Subject

  • 1800-1900

Type

  • Language

Classification

  • ISBN

    • 0812244044
    • 9780812244045

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America.

Persistent URL

Visit

This publication is part of the Rijksmuseum library. Anyone wishing to conduct research on or use the Rijksmuseum's collections is welcome to visit the Rijksmuseum Research Library and the Study Room Prints & Drawings.
View in library