Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes

by Wendy Wick Reaves and Grant B. Romer

From 1845 to 1862, the Boston partnership of Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes maintained the most celebrated photography studio in the United States. Taking as their subjects both the greatest personalities of the day and the natural spectacles of the American landscape, such as Niagara Falls, Southworth & Hawes elevated the new medium of daguerreotype photography to the level of art. Transcending the mere recording of factual detail,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 386521066X
• ISBN13: 9783865210661
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 7.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 10.0" x 12.0"