Paper Promises - Early American Photography

Mazie M. Harris

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English

Getty Publications
20 March 2018

Photographs: collections; Photographic reportage; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

Scholarship on photography’s earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negatives. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to produce photographic images on a variety of paper formats in the early decades of the medium. Paper Promises: Early American Photography presents this rarely studied topic within photographic history.

The well-researched and richly detailed texts in this book delve into the complexities of early paper photography in the United States from the 1840s to 1860s, bringing to light a little-known era of American photographic appropriation and adaptation. Exploring the economic, political, intellectual, and social factors that impacted its unique evolution, both the essays and the carefully selected images illustrate the importance of photographic reproduction in shaping and circulating perceptions of America and its people during a critical period of political tension and territorial expansion.

Due to the fragility of paper photography from this period, the works in this catalogue are rarely displayed, making the volume an essential tool for any scholar in the field and a very rare peek into the mid-nineteenth century.

By: Mazie M. Harris
Imprint: Getty Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 247mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1.424kg
ISBN: 9781606065495
ISBN 10: 1606065491
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 20 March 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mazie M. Harris is assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Her research focuses on American photography.