Sleeping Beauty

Photography was quickly adapted to the social rituals and customs of nineteenth century America, and among these institutions was the memorial portrait. until the advent of photography, this portrait was a painting and was primarily an upper-class phenomenon. With the widespread use of the camera, nearly everyone could afford a post-mortem portrait, and for the next half-century these portraits were a mainstay of American's commercial photographers. twelvetrees pressnovember 19909 x 12 inches76 color plates140 pages