The Scenic Daguerreotype : Romanticism and Early Photography por Wood, John - 1995

University Of Iowa Press, 1995-10-01. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 136x20x176. Hardbound with dust jacket. Clear protective cover over jacket; not ex-library. Pages unmarked, gentle wear.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xiv, 222pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Iowa City: Univeristy of Iowa Press, 1995. Hardcover. VG/VG- (light rubbing to corners & spine edges; fa light wear to dust jacket edges and corners). Burgundy cloth boards with gilt stamped spine lettering. Gray and photographic dust jacket with maroon and black lettering. xiv, 222 pp. BW photographs, Too often, photographic historians have given credit to the calotype for establishing our sense and standard of the photographic, when in reality it was the daguerreotype that first taught us how to see photographically, taking us beyond portraiture to a standard for scenic images that is still with us today. Here is the first study of scenic daguerreotypes from around the world and the largest assemblage of them ever to be presented in book form. Contending that L.J.M. Daguerre was at the forefront of the romantic revolution, Wood discusses Daguerre's work in the context of John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, and Caspar David Friedrich. He also draws parallels between early landscape photography, the… Ler mais

Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 222 pages. Foreword by John R. Stilgoe. Text by John Wood. Includes numerous black and white images. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1995. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 222 pp. .

Iowa City, IA: University Of Iowa Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Iowa City, IA: University Of Iowa Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 222 pages. Landmark monograph on subject. One of the most important photography books ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as part of the now-classic series on the early history of photography by the Iowa University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by University of Iowa Press: Oversize-volume format. Maroon linen cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by John Wood. Foreword by John R. Stilgoe. Photographs by various contributors. Printed on archival, acid-free stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with… Ler mais

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995. 1st . Hardcover. fine/fine. Foreword by John R. Stilgoe. More than 100 images.

University Of Iowa Press, 1995-10-01. 1. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x1. Slight toning to jacket.

University Of Iowa Press. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!