The Americas : competing photographic practices across shifting political borders -- The Pacific : photographing Indigenous royalty amid British and French imperial tensions -- Australia : daguerrean galleries, dissolving views and visual ...
Daguerre's American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840-1900) from the Wm. B. Becker Collection
What's Wrong with Daguerre?: Reconsidering Old and New Views on the Intervention of Photography
In this text, Keith F. Davis examines photography's social history and aesthetic development in an era of rapid national growth.