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In this text, Keith F. Davis examines photography's social history and aesthetic development in an era of rapid national growth. He demonstrates how key themes and genres - including the business of daguerreian portraiture, the markets for Civil War images, and the art of Western landscape photography - reflected the concerns and values of nineteenth-century society. Photographers of this era expressed a new national consciousness while, at the same time, helping to shape it. They also explored the visual language of a radically new medium, laying the foundation for all of photography's subsequent history.

Photography, Artistic --- Photography --- Daguerreotype --- History --- Hallmark Photographic Collection --- Hallmark Cards, Inc. --- Exhibitions --- gelatin dry plate process --- photography [process] --- daguerreotypes [photographs] --- photography and photographic processes and techniques --- fotografie --- fotografische technieken --- America