Massachusetts Photographers
- Author: Chris Steele and Ronald Polito
- SKU: 1176
- ISBN: 0929539761
- Our Price:
$79.50
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Description:
MASSACHUSETTS PHOTOGRAPHERS, a Directory of, 1839-1900. By Chris Steele and Ronald Polito. 704 pp. 8½x11; 100 rare photos, dj. 10,262 entry Every Name Index. Smythe sewn and hard cover. 1993. #1176 $75.00
"Steele and Polito have launched the science of regional research to a new level. Never before has a directory of photographers been so thoroughly researched and attractively packaged. Steele and Polito accomplished what every other regional researcher hopes to. Quite possibly, it will become the standard by which future directories will be produced." - The Daguerreian Society Newsletter
"A valuable resource for anyone working with the graphic arts at the end of the nineteenth century. A monumental work." - Sally Pierce, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Library of the Boston Athenaeum
This extremely valuable research aid contains a comprehensive directory of all early Massachusetts photographers and photographic workers.
It also includes a moving collection of one hundred of the earliest photographic images ever recorded in Massachusetts. Three quarters of the images have never before been seen by the public: from the striking impact of slave stealer Captain Jonathan Walker's branded hand to the haunting beauty of "wreck on Nantucket," these vivid images will be indelibly imprinted on your mind.
And when you want to identify and date great-grandmother's Massachusetts photograph, you will reach for this book again, for Steele and Polito have amassed, and presented here, data on 5,759 photographers and firms, and an additional 1,041 associated workers - each accompanied by detailed information on dates and places of their work and residence.
This is an outstanding book for anyone interested in the history of photography, in early Massachusetts photography, or the history of the graphic arts in general.
