The Silver Canvas

The Silver Canvas
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780892365364
ISBN-13 : 0892365366
Rating : 4/5 (366 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Silver Canvas by : Bates Lowry

Download or read book The Silver Canvas written by Bates Lowry and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.


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