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NATURAL MAGIC
SALTED PAPER PRINTS IN NORTH AMERICA |
| By: |
Jordan Bear, Russell Lord, Lisa Volpe |
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Hardback |
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£32.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0295994908 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780295994901 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 January, 2015 |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
" ... fifth and last in the [Santa Barbara Museum of Art's] series of nineteenth-century photographic explorations"--Foreword. |
| Synopsis: |
The salted paper print process and the daguerreotype were invented, for all practical purposes, simultaneously. Though using different materials and methods (the salted paper print was patented, while daguerreotype was not) still both achieved the miracle of fixing an image from life within a substratein other words, they ushered in the medium of photography. The uses of each form of photography varied greatly. In Europe the salted paper print was valued for its aesthetic qualities the massing of light and the softening of detailwhile in North America, the salted paper print was valued for its portability and reproducibility. At the same time, the three evolving regions that comprised North AmericaCanada, the United States and Mexicofaced quite different realities and challenges than those in Europe (primarily France and Britain). In North America artistic merit was less of a priority, as each emerging nation faced vast, untamed territories, as well as social and political tumult.These were countries in the makingdefining borders, struggling to create identities, and establishing metropolitan areas and transportation networks, while the scions on the other side of the Atlantic cast a leisurely eye to their artistic, architectural, and colonial heritage for subject matter. Scant research has been done on the use of the salted paper print in North America during its brief period of use (approximately 18471865); physical prints are often found in obscure collections and locations, and they are, as is true for most works on paper from that period, exceedingly fragile. This volume, with essays by three up and coming 19th-century scholars, offers new views on the use and employment of the salted paper print in North America. The hope is that this publication will encourage investigation, for the history of photography has many areas of terra incognita yet to discover. |
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80 colour plates, 20 colour illustrations, 23 color illus., 87 color plates |
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US |
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University of Washington Press |
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