American Photographs: The First Century. From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art. Untitled (Friends of Photography) October 26

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was an excellent documentary photographer

Format and Presentation

and geography of San Francisco provided the initial "training ground" for his eye

The Daguerreotype Era: Early portraiture and the democratic nature of "the mirror with a memory

American Photographs: The First Century. From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art. Untitled (Friends of Photography) October 26Edited by Merry A. Foresta. Smithsonian, 1996. Phenomenal photographs collected by Charles Isaacs, Jr., who provides an Afterword. 79 color plates plus more than 100 four color images. George Barker, William Bell, Charles Bierstadt, Elias Bonine, Mathew Brady, Annie Brigman, Alexander Gardner, Laura Gilpin. O. Pierre Havens; William Rau, Paul Haviland, F. Jay Haynes, Alexander Hesler, Pach Brothers, Lejaren Hillers, Lewis Hine, William Henry Jackson,