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Gold and Silver

By (author) Luce Lebart





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Gold and Silver offers a contemporary insight into an exclusive archive of the California Gold Rush held by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, and donated by the Archive of Modern Conflict. Young nineteenth-century argonauts look at the camera, defying all the conventions of portraiture. Everything in these pictures – their attitudes, their stares, their clothes – deviates from the usual representations associated with daguerreotype photography. These portraits are accompanied by a series of landscape photographs, also printed on metal. Together, they reveal a pioneering iconography of the American landscape that stresses the human use of the land. The photographers manipulated their images after were printed, adding gold dust onto streams or gold nuggets onto the sieves of the pioneers. The book design highlights the relations between gold from the Great West and silver – two kinds of metallic salts used in photography. Gold and Silver is co-published by the Canadian Photography Institute and RVB BOOKS.

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Publisher | RVB Books
Published date | 1 Oct 2017
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 128
Dimensions | 335 x 220 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 887g
ISBN | 979-1-0903-0667-7
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BISAC | photography / general


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