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Photography and the American Scene and the birth of the camera era
The author reviews Robert Taft’s History of American photography 1839 1889 tracing Daguerre and Niepce to Morse and Wolcott to Brady O Sullivan and Jackson. Taft argues photography shaped society from portraits to science and exploration, citing pioneers and frontier work, including Yellowstone and the Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Taft
United States
John Richard Green
Macmillan Company
Taft
University of Kansas
John C. Fremont
West
The
New York Observer
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Morse
John W. Draper
Dorothy Catherine Draper
Alexander S. Wolcott
New York
John Johnson
Daguerre
Wolcott
Johnson
Dr. Taft
America
Brady
Alexander Gardner
T .H. O'Sullivan
Gettysburg
T. H. O'Sullivan
John K. Hillers
Maj
J. W. Powell
Colorado River
Grand Canyon
Arizona
William H. Jackson
Omaha
Union Pacific
F. W. Hayden
Jackson
Hayden Surveys
Hayden
Yellowstone National Park
Hayden Survey