Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of L. J. M. Daguerre

by Stephen C. Pinson

Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre (1787-1851) was a true nineteenth-century visionary--a painter, printmaker, set designer, entrepreneur, inventor, and pioneer of photography. Though he was widely celebrated beyond his own lifetime for his invention of the daguerreotype, it was his origins as a theatrical designer and purveyor of visual entertainment that paved the way for Daguerre's emergence as one of the world's most iconic imagemakers.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226669114
• ISBN13: 9780226669113
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 3.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"