Silver and Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush

1st. ed. 1998,Hardcover with the dust cover ,226 pages with 50 color photographs and many B&W photographs. Condition : NEW and still in the publishers shrink wrap . Why buy the cheap paper back reprint ,we have a limited collectable Hardcover copys in stock. Now out of print . Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall

From Publisher:

Photography in America was not even ten years old when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, and the rush of miners was followed by a rush of daguerreotype practitioners; both crafts evolved together in this remarkable time. Silver and Gold, the first book-length treatment of the earliest major historical phenomenon to be recorded by the camera lens, presents more than 150 extraordinary daguerreotypes and ambrotypes, many never before published. Silver and Gold includes works by Robert Vance, P.M. Batchelder, William Shew, Frederick Coombs, and W. H. Rulofson -- images of native Californians and those who migrated there to seek their fortunes in the gold fields. Photographs from the mining communities reflect the miners' rough houses, sunburned faces, and makeshift clothes, capturing the isolation and determination of people working under difficult conditions far from home. Essays by John Wood, poet and founding president of the Daguerreian Society; Peter Palmquist, independent scholar and curator in the field of photography; and Drew Johnson and Marcia Eymann, cocurators of the Oakland Museum exhibition that complements this volume, enhance these striking early images. In addition, annotations on the back of the photographs and written accounts of the experiences they record provide glimpses into the intentions of the photographers.

Product Info

ISBN: 0877456194

ISBN-13: 9780877456193

Publisher: U of Iowa

Year: 1998

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

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