The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype

by Marcy J. Dinius

Book Overview

Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244044
• ISBN13: 9780812244045
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"