February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
710 pages
30h 6m
English
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CHAPTER 1 Phantasmagoria at the Cour des Capucines (detail), 1797. Frontispiece of E.G. Robertson’s Mémoires récréatifs, scientifiques et anecdotiques du physicien-aéronaute, Volume 1, 1831.
CHAPTER 2 UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER (AMERICAN). Portrait of a Nurse and a Child (detail), circa 1850. 2 × 1⅞ inches. Daguerreotype with hand applied color. COURTESY The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
CHAPTER 3 CHARLES NÈGRE. The Vampire (detail) (Henri Le Secq at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris), 1853. 13 × 9¼ inches. Salted paper print.
CHAPTER 4 UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER (AMERICAN). Portrait of Two Seated Women (detail), circa 1860. 2⅜ × 2⅞ inches. Ambrotype, ruby glass, hand colored, digitally altered to show positive and ...
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