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Our list of the best works on the subject:

Seizing the Light: A History of Photography

by Robert Hirsch 

The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth Century Technology and Modern Science

by M. Susan Barger is a survey of the photograph in mid-nineteenth century life. It also provides a technical study of the Daguerreotype process and includes how to restore and preserve these images.

America and the Daguerreotype

by John Wood is a passionate exploration of the Daguerreotype, portraying a fascinating visual picture of America between 1840 and 1860 within a social, economic and historical context.

 

The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes

by Robert Sobieszek is a stunning volume of 107 of their finest photographs including portraits of both famous and ordinary people and a variety of landscapes and views of the mid-19th century.

The Scenic Daguerreotype: Romanticism and Early Photography

by John Wood. Here is the first study of scenic daguerreotypes from around the world and the largest assemblage of them ever presented  in book form.

A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot

by Larry J. Schaaf. The images that Talbot captured are beautiful and mysterious. Softer than modern photography, these pictures look like paintings. Each of the 100 images is given its own explanatory text.

Likeness and Landscape: Thomas M. Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype

by Dolores Kilgo is an extraordinary work of historical and cultural research, a study of perhaps the most gifted and most dedicated of all American daguerreotypists.

The American Tintype

by Floyd Rinhart is the comprehensive history of the tintype

Cartes De Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography

by William C. Darrah is also a good reference for stereo fans since many CDV workers also made stereos.

The World of Stereographs

by William C. Darrah is the definitive work on Stereoviews.

  Union Cases: A Collector's Guide to the Art of America's First Plastics

by C. Krainik

 

American Miniature Case Art

 

by Floyd Rinhart is the pioneer book on Photographic Cases . It was the reference bible for  twenty  years until  Krainik’s ‘Union Cases’ was published . A 'must have' for collectors.

 

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