About the Author

Stephen C. Pinson is curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 

Reviews

"Both exhibition and catalog offer plenty of supplementary contextual material. There is a selection of Girault's watercolors, his oil painting of the Alhambra, and one of the huge self-published volumes of his archaeological lithographs: a reminder that daguerreotypes were for the artist only a means to an end, the crude ore for more refined expressions."--Richard B. Woodward, Wall Street Journal "Excellent work. . . . The book provides a unique opportunity to view a sustained body of work by one of the world's first working photographers and to learn about the context for his pioneering photographic work."--W. S. Johnson, Choice Connect