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- Title
Gabriel Harrison - The Poetic Daguerrean.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the life and works of photographer Gabriel Harrison, the Poetic Daguerrean. His name has been kept alive to photographic historians by the survival of his master work, "The Infant Savior." This daguerreotype was presented to the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York in 1954 by Clara L. Harrison, his grand-daughter. It notes that Harrison may have been the first to exhibit the descriptive daguerreotypes that is illustrative of poetry or sentiment. Moreover, he was trying to d in photography what was being done in the popular paintings and engravings of the day.
- Subjects
ROCHESTER (N.Y.); NEW York (State); HARRISON, Gabriel; PHOTOGRAPHERS; PHOTOGRAPHIC historians; INTERNATIONAL museums; PHOTOGRAPHY exhibitions; GEORGE Eastman Kodak Co.; HARRISON, Clara L.
- Publication
Image, 1979, Vol 22, Issue 3, p8
- ISSN
0536-5465
- Publication type
Article