The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum

By the middle of the nineteenth
century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis
Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual
images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this
book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously
published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.