Wonderful portraits, 1850s towns, landscapes; full text plus 104 photos. Enlarged edition.

Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barna

The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The dagu

Essays by photographers, critics, and philosophers.

Newhall discusses the initial introduction of the daguerreotype in America in 1839, the beginnings of the daguerreotype industry, the entrepreneurs and innovato