The Silver Canvas
| Author | : Bates Lowry |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2000-02-03 |
| 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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