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The Valiant Knights of Daguerre: Selected Critical Essays on Photography and Profiles of Photographic Pioneers by Sadakichi Hartmann contains 46 critical essays by the noted art critic's views on photography, edited by Harry W. Lawton and George Knox. Among the forerunners of photographic criticism in America none exerted such personal influence on so many photographers as Sadakichi Hartmann, the Japanese-German novelist, dramatist, poet and art critic. Hartmann rampaged through the photographic world, first as Alfred Stieglitz iconoclastic hatchet man of the Photo-Secession movement, later as an unruly rebel sniping away at his mentor under the pseudonym of Caliban. Illustrated with numerous black and white photos.