Panzer Mary Text (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xxiii, 232 pages, illustrations, map, portraits; 29 cm. An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, September 26, 1997 to January 4, 1998; and other venues. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Profusely illustrated. *** "In Mathew Brady and the Image of History, Mary Panzer describes how Brady used the documentary medium of photography to portray a stable, purposeful, patriotic republic during the decades when the national identity was fragmenting. She charts the most productive years of Brady's career, from his emergence in 1844 as a daguerreotypist in New York to his bankruptcy in Washington, D.C., in 1872. Intent on creating a 'national portrait gallery' of famous leaders that would connect such luminaries as Daniel Webster and Henry Clay with the Civil War leaders who succeeded them - and with future generations - Brady assiduously courted his subjects, enhancing their reputations along with his own." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Chronology of Mathew Brady's life; Introduction; A brief biography; "A perfect kaleidoscope": New York City; The making of a daguerreotypist; Building a national gallery; Photography and American art at midcentury; Washington and the war years; History as image, photography as art; Notes. A gallery of images; Plate captions and subject biographies; Recollection the past: a collection; Chronicle of Mathew Brady's photographs, by Jeana K. Foley; Appendix: Contemporary descriptions of Mathew Brady. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. As-new, in dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 4to. 24 pp & 16 pp. Stiff printed wraps in 2-way binding. Very good. Includes verso fold-out portfolio catalog of 16 full page black and white plates. Catalog created on occasion of exhibit "Halsman / Dali" at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York from February 6 through March 13, 2004. First edition.…