The Camera and the Press : American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Daguerreotype in Antebellum American Popular Print -- 2. Daguerreian Romanticism: The House of the Seven Gables and Gabriel Harrison's Portraits -- 3. ''Some ideal image of the man and his mind'': Melville's Pierre and Southworth & -- Hawes's Daguerreian Aesthetic -- 4. Slavery in Black and White: Daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 5. ''My daguerreotype shall be a true one'': Augustus Washington and the Liberian Colonization Movement -- 6. Seeing a Slave as a Man: Frederick Douglass, Racial Progress, and Daguerreian Portraiture -- Epilogue. ''An Old Daguerreotype'' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Through a wide-ranging examination of antebellum images and literature, The Camera and the Press shows how Americans' first encounter with photography was more textual than visual. This thoroughly illustrated case study reexamines current theories on new media and reconnects print and visual culture in nineteenth-century America.
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Photography in literature-United States-History-19th century. Literature and photography-United States-History-19th century. American fiction-19th century-Illustrations-Public opinion. Daguerreotype-United States-History-19th century. Documentary photography-Social aspects-United States-History-19th century. Visual communication-United States-History-19th century. Public opinion-United States-History-19th century.