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Gold and Silver / Or et argent

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'Gold and Silver' offers a contemporary insight into an exclusive archive of the California Gold Rush kept by the Canadian Photography Institute at the National Gallery of Canada . Young 19th-century prospectors look at the camera, defying all the conventions of portraiture. Everything in these pictures their attitudes, their stares, their clothes deviates from the usual representations attached to daguerreotype photography. These portraits are accompanied by a series of landscapes photographs, also printed on metal; together, they reveal a pioneering iconography of the American landscape that stresses the human use of the land.

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Rvb Books

Release: December 20, 2017

ISBN 13: 9791090306677

Gold and Silver / Or et argent

5/5 ( ratings)

'Gold and Silver' offers a contemporary insight into an exclusive archive of the California Gold Rush kept by the Canadian Photography Institute at the National Gallery of Canada . Young 19th-century prospectors look at the camera, defying all the conventions of portraiture. Everything in these pictures their attitudes, their stares, their clothes deviates from the usual representations attached to daguerreotype photography. These portraits are accompanied by a series of landscapes photographs, also printed on metal; together, they reveal a pioneering iconography of the American landscape that stresses the human use of the land.

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Rvb Books

Release: December 20, 2017

ISBN 13: 9791090306677

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