The salted paper print process and the daguerreotype were invented, for all practical purposes, simultaneously. Though using different materials and methods (the salted paper print was patented, while daguerreotype was not) still both achieved the miracle of fixing an image from life within a substrate--in other words, they ushered in the medium of photography.
The uses of each form of photography varied greatly. In Europe the salted paper print was valued for its aesthetic qualities―the massing of light and the softening of detail--while in North America, the salted paper...
The salted paper print process and the daguerreotype were invented, for all practical purposes, simultaneously. Though using different materials an...
An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes
Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of 19th-century American landscape photography, many photographers were working in the eastern half of the United States during that period. Their pictures, with the exception of Civil War images, have received relatively scant attention. Redressing this imbalance is East of the Mississippi, the first book to focus exclusively on the arresting eastern...
An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and them...
