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Author Pinson, Stephen C.

Title Speculating Daguerre : art and enterprise in the work of L. J. M. Daguerre / Stephen C. Pinson.

Publication Info. Chicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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 Moore Stacks  TR140.D3 P56 2012    Available  ---
Description pages cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The reign of speculation -- Operatic enterprises -- The panorama effect -- Lookers -- Optical naturalism -- Theatrical landscapes -- The museum as laboratory -- Nature's palette: fixed and modifiable views -- An artist's "fortune" -- 1814-1825 -- 1825-1830 -- 1830-1839 -- Speculating Daguerre -- Counterproof -- Permanence -- Monuments -- A catalogue of works attributed to Daguerre -- Works on paper -- Paintings -- Daguerreotypes -- Appendix 1: Daguerre's addresses in Paris -- Appendix 2: chronology -- Appendix 3: a primer on the early history of photography..
Subject Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
Photography -- History -- 19th century.
Photography.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780226669113 cloth alkaline paper
0226669114 cloth alkaline paper