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Speculating Daguerre : art and enterprise in the work of L. J. M. Daguerre /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinson, Stephen C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, > 1787-1851.
Photography > History > 19th century.
Table of 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..