The Silver Canvas - Daguerrotype Masterpieces (Art Photography Ebook)

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Collas, Achille, 134
Compromise of 1850, 207
Constable, William, 2i8n37
Self-Portrait with a Recent Invention, 62, 63
Construction projects, use of daguerreotypy in, 204
Conte, Nicolas-Jacques, 133
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, 158
Courbet, Gustave, 150
The Sleepers, 156
Cross Section, Plan, and Interior View of the Diorama, 6
Cross Section of the Panorama, 2
Crowd along the Street (Unknown French Photographer),
174,175
The Crystal Palace at Hyde Park, London (Mayall), 42, 43
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande
alteration of contract with Niepce, 12-13
An historical and descriptive account of the various processes
of the daguerreotype and the Diorama, 2iini
art of illusion, 1-2,142
and "bunch of grapes" challenge, 140-42
Dessin Fumee—Fantasie, 135,136-37
dessinsfumee (smoke drawings), 136-37
Diorama productions, 5-6, 7-8
efforts to market daguerreotype, 13-14
efforts to record objects in motion, 169-70
Landscape, 141,142
lithographs, 136
oil paintings, 136
in Prevost s workshop, 2
publication of instruction manual for making
daguerreotypes, 19
reaction to criticism of daguerreotype process, 20-21
relationship with Niepce, 9-12; 2iini5, 2121126, 2141158
Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, 136
Set for a Scene from the Opera "Aladdin" (attributed), 5
as stage designer for Paris Opera, 2, 4-5
as stage designer for Theatre de rAmbigu-Comique, 4
Still Life, 137,139
still-life compositions, 137-42
Still Life with Casts, 13
Still Life with Drape and Sculptures, 136,139
The Tuileries and the Seine from the Quai d'Orsay, 20
view of daguerreotype as new art form, 135,137-38
work on developing portraiture process, 45
work on the daguerreotype, 9,11-12; 2121131
Daguerreotypists, American
itinerant, 88
mid-i9th-century recordings, 192
of Philadelphia, 54, 58
triumph of realism over idealized classicism, 208-9
Daguerreotypy
adoption of by travelers, 27, 34
appeal of, 25-27
as artistic process, 25
as companion to microscope, 101-3,104
criticism of discovery and process, 19-20
early lithographs made from tracings of, 27
effect on relationship between people of the world,
103
inability to record objects in motion, 169-71
instructions for making, 19, 48
posing devices, 172
postmortem, 103,103
press reports of, 23
public fantasies about, 23-24
reception of, 14-15,16-17
as research tool, 101-6
search for method to make multiple views, 27
struggle of Parisians to make, 24-25
studies of nudes, 126
use by astronomers, 101
use by historians, 103-6
use of for anthropological records, no
use of in construction projects, 204
use of time as tool in, 176
use of to record geological phenomena, 108
David, Jacques Louis, 3
Degotti, Eugene Marie, 2
Delacroix, Eugene, 126
Delaroche, Paul, 135; 224118
Denon, Vivant, 34
Dental disease, classification of, 114
Design for Extension and New Dome of the U.S. Capitol
(Walter), 190,191
Dessinsfumee (smoke drawings), 135, 136-37
Diagraphe, 134
Dighton Rock, 100,116,117; 22in2i
Diorama, i, 5-7, 8, 9,135,136,137,140,142
An historical and descriptive account of the various pro
cesses of the daguerreotype and the Diorama, 2iini
audience reaction to, 7
Cross Section, Plan, and Interior View of the Diorama, 6
Distant View of La Rancheria, California (Vance), 200, 201
Donne, Alfred, 18-19, 27,102
Cours de microscopic, 102,102-3
Douglass, Frederick, 180
Draper, William, 2171121
Still Life, 140,142
Du Camp, Maxime, no
Durheim, Charles
Postmortem of a Child, 120,121; 222n25
Early Operation Using Ether for Anesthesia (Southworth and
Hawes), 182,183,184-85; 227m8-i9, n22
Easterly, Thomas M.
Portrait of a Father, Daughters, and Nurse, 74, 75
Eastman, Seth, at Dighton Rock, 100,116,117; 2211121
Edmonson sisters, 180
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