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A snapshot of the lives of the state's celebrated and little-known photographers Partners with the Sun recounts the history of the men and women who captured a century of South Carolina images, from photography's introduction in the state through 1940. Beginning with William H. Ellet, a South Carolina College professor who was the first in the state to experiment with the new technology, Harvey S. Teal records carefully researched biographical information about six hundred professional photographers who worked throughout South Carolina. He showcases their work with more than three hundred examples of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinets, stereographs, panoramas, and other types of photographs. While the images provide a one-hundred-year pictorial panorama of South Carolina, the biographical entries rescue from obscurity the men and women who made a business of recording the state's landscapes, streetscapes, architecture, people, social life, and economic endeavors. Dividing the century into historical periods, Teal groups the photographers by the towns in which they operated studios. Additionally, he profiles amateur photographers who participated in sig

Author

Teal, Harvey S.

Publisher

Published by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Caroliana Library, with the assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund and the University Caroliniana Society

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570033841

Subjects

Photography, Memoir, History