Steps Off the Beaten Path: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome and Its Environs / Sentieri smarriti e ritrovati: Roma e dintorni nelle fotografie del secondo Ottocento (English and Italian Edition)

W. Bruce Lundberg; John A. Pinto; et al

ISBN 10: 8881586673 / ISBN 13: 9788881586677

Published by Edizioni Charta, Milan, Italy, 2007

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First edition 2007, matching dates on the copyright page and on the colophon page, no additional printings listed. Published by Edizioni Charta, Milan, Italy. Large softcover without DJ as issued. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, spine not creased, sharp corners, no edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. Large 4to, 216 pages, 92 illustrations including 87 in color. English and Italian languages. Large and heavy book will require additional postage for priority or international orders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Steps Off the Beaten Path: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome and Its Environs / Sentieri smarriti e ritrovati: Roma e dintorni nelle fotografie del secondo Ottocento (English and Italian Edition)
• Publisher: Edizioni Charta, Milan, Italy
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8881586673
• ISBN 13: 9788881586677
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

By 1860, photography in Rome was undergoing dramatic change. The level of detail made possible by new glass wet plate and albumen techniques encouraged photographers to take a documentary approach, focusing on architectural fragments, transitional spaces like stairways, even citizens going blurrily about their daily business--in short, on everything but the city's oft-photographed basilicas and ruins. The candid, frequently off-balance images collected in this unique volume, by photographers such as Vincento Carlo, Domenico Baldessare Simelli, Eugène Gustave Chauffourier, A. de Bonis and Edmond Lebel, anticipate both street photography and postmodern photographic abstraction.
These photographers have only recently begun to emerge from obscurity and remain poorly documented. Indeed, many of their images have never been exhibited, and in some cases attribution remains conjectural. By bringing a significant body of work together, this collection sheds new light on their individual artistic personalities and illuminates the contributions of the group to the history of photography.