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Illuminating shadows : the calotype in nineteenth-century America
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Illuminating shadows : the calotype in nineteenth-century America

by David Hanlon

An exploration of the early American photographers who pioneered the calotype process during the antebellum era. The text details their experiments with paper negatives and their struggles to promote a photographic method that would eventually revolutionise the medium.

Accession 31818 ISBN 9781887694315 Publisher Carl Mautz Publishing
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