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Photography in nineteenth-century America / edited by Martha A. Sandweiss ; with essays by Alan Trachtenberg [and others].

Fort Worth [Texas] : Amon Carter Museum ; New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1991.

xv, 335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Sandweiss, Martha A., editor, author, writer of introduction.

Trachtenberg, Alan, author.

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.

Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Amon Carter Museum, Oct. 26, 1991-Jan. 5, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also issued online.

Introduction / Martha A. Sandweiss -- Color plates -- Photography : the emergence of a keyword / Alan Trachtenberg -- The portrait studio and the celebrity : promoting the art / Barbara McCandless -- Portfolio -- Undecisive moments : the narrative tradition in Western photography / Martha A. Sandweiss -- "A terrible distinctness" : photography of the Civil War era / Keith F. Davis -- Portfolio -- American views and the romance of modernization / Peter Bacon Hales -- "Of charming glens, graceful glades, and frowning cliffs" : the economic incentives, social inducements, and aesthetic issues of American pictorial photography, 1880-1902 / Sarah Greenough -- Portfolio -- Appendix. Works in the exhibition, with artist biographies.

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