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

Kilgo, Dolores A.; Easterly, Thomas M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883982030 ISBN 13: 9781883982034

Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Pr, 1994

Synopsis

pp. 234, b/w and color illustrations, flyleaf bares personal library stamp.  "Described by his contemporaries as "Daguerre's most dedicated follower," Thomas M. Easterly did most of his work in the relative obscurity of St. Louis. This lavishly illustrated account of his twenty-seven-year career established him as a new master in the ranks of nineteenth-century photographers....

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This sumptuous volume sets a new standard for excellent daguerreotype reproduction and brings forward the hitherto unknown Thomas M. Easterly as a significant figure in early photography. Kilgo's extensive research and the beautiful pictures support her assertion of Easterly's work as rivaling that of Southworth and Hawes, the Boston partners generally thought to be the finest daguerreotype portraitists. Based in St. Louis, Easterly was at the mid-nineteenth-century frontier, which gave him access to the Native Americans he began portraying in the 1840s and whose portraits constitute one of the highlights of the book. Easterly's main work was portraiture, as was that of all daguerreotypists, but Easterly also made an unusual number of landscapes on the silvery plates, and he continued using daguerreotypy into the 1870s, long after other photographers had switched to the glass-plate collodion process. A valuable, scholarly record, Kilgo's work will delight serious historians as it gives them and even the most casual reader the flavor of the exciting interface of urbanization and wild frontier in mid-nineteenth-century America. Gretchen Garner

Edition details

• Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1883982030
• ISBN 13: 9781883982034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 234