The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Editorials
Library Journal
This wonderful catalog accompanies an exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, and is intended as a prequel to the previously published An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital.It contains more than 600 significant images from the Hallmark Photographic Collection, all reproduced with exceptional quality in tritone and color. The museum's curator of photography, Davis (An American Century of Photography) provides a comprehensive text that is both scholarly and readable. The catalog documents an exciting period of photographic history expressed by technical innovation as well as changing social, political, and natural landscapes. It includes meticulously researched catalog notes by assistant curator Jane L. Aspinwall. The volume is indexed with bibliographic citations within the catalog entries. An important acquisition for academic and larger public libraries with an interest in America's cultural history.
—Nancy B. Turner