After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography (1848-1900) from the Bibliotheque Nationale

Marbot, Bernard

Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Berger-Levrault, New York and Paris, 1980

About this Item

Cloth, 187 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. English Edition. Exhibition held at the Musee du Petit Palais, under the auspices of the Festival d'automne, Paris, September 18 to November 23, 1980; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 18, 1980 to February 15, 1981 Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Profusely illustrated. *** "In 1839 Louis-Jacques-Maude Daguerre astonished the Academie des sciences with the revelation that he had discovered how to make images on silvered copper plates that were 'drawn by the hand of the sun.' . . . Early French photographers produced a range of images that anticipated nearly every style and subject since explored by serious art photographers of the twentieth century--genre scenes, nudes, portraiture, architecture, and still lifes . Fortunately for students of this golden age of photography, French law required that two copies of each product of the graphic arts meant to be sold to the public be deposited in the Depot legal. Many of the prints, long buried in the fonds of the Bibliotheque nationale, have not been seen by anyone since their photographers themselves first placed them there. The unrivaled collection . now part of the Bibliotheque's Departement des estampes et de la photographie, is now for the first time brought to light, as a collaborative effort between the Bibliotheque nationale and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The work of one hundred photographers, from 1848 to 1900 was selected to give both the public and the experts their first glimpse of some of the finest photographs of the nineteenth century." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Prefaces, by Georges Le Rider, Philippe de Montebello; Early photography in the collection of the Cabinet des estampes, by Jean-Pierre Seguin; The beginnings of photography as art in France, by Weston J. Naef; Catalogue, by Bernard Marbot. Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography (1848-1900) from the Bibliotheque Nationale
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Berger-Levrault, New York and Paris
• Publication Date: 1980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Collectible
• Seller catalogs:
  • European::French
  • European::7. Late 19th Century
  • Photography::History
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES
  • XXL::Extra Extra Large