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Photography’s First Century: A century of French photographic innovation.
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Photography's First Century

Masterworks from the Bibliotheque nationale de France

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  • Hardcover

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    16 February 2027

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Summary

Through more than 150 images, this book traces the history of photography in France from the 1840s to the 1940s

Drawn from the holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of photographs, the more than 150 images showcased in this book tell the story of the first hundred years of photography in France from the rise of the Daguerreotype and the calotype in the 1840s to the age of modernism in t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780300303599
ISBN-10:0300303599
Author:Sylvie Aubenas, Flora Triebel, George T.M. Shackelford
Publisher:Yale University Press
Imprint:Yale University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:16 February 2027
Dimensions:254mm x 305mm
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Photography's First Century by Sylvie Aubenas - ISBN: 9780300303599
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About The Author

Sylvie Aubenas

Sylvie Aubenas is director, Department of Prints and Photography, and Flora Triebel is curator in charge, nineteenth-century photographs, Department of Prints and Photography, both at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. George T. M. Shackelford is deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.

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