Luce Lebart – Gold & Silver. Daguerréotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes from the gold rush / Or et Argent. Daguerrérotypes, ambrotypes et ferrorypes de la ruée vers l’or.

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31.5 x 23 cm. [128] pp. Softcover. Illustrated in b/w throughout. – ‘Gold and Silver’ offers a contemporary insight into an exclusive archive of the California Gold Rush kept by the Canadian Photography Institute at the National Gallery of Canada. Young 19th-century prospectors look at the camera, defying all the conventions of portraiture. Everything in these pictures -their attitudes, their stares, their clothes – deviates from the usual representations attached to daguerreotype photography. These portraits are accompanied by a series of landscapes photographs, also printed on metal; together, they reveal a pioneering iconography of the American landscape that stresses the human use of the land. – Good copy

Auteur: LEBART, Luce

Jaar: 2018

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Uitgeverij: Canadian Photography Institute / RVB BOOKS

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ISBN: 9791090306677