Ausstellungskatalog, Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 30.10.1999-06.02.2000.
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Press
1999
first edition
104 p.
cb. in dustjacket
53 duotone & 2 color photographs
Buch, Katalog
0816636567; 9780816636563
Text engl. Incl. chronology, bibliography, index. - The author redresses the idea that Gurney lived in the shadow of Brady. Beginning in the 1840s in his New York studio, Gurney had by 1853 outperformed all his competitors becoming the number one portrait photographer in the USA. Working in every major 19th century photographic medium and format, he photographed the middle classes as well as the famous including Mark Twain, Charles Dickens & the Prince of Wales.