Photodiscovery : masterworks of photography, 1840-1940 / by Bruce Bernard ; with notes on the photographic processes by Valerie Lloyd.

Title & Author:

Photodiscovery : masterworks of photography, 1840-1940 / by Bruce Bernard ; with notes on the photographic processes by Valerie Lloyd.

Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1980]
©1980

Description:

262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 262).
Foreword / Sam Wagstaff -- Preface / Bruce Bernard -- Introduction -- The photographs -- Notes on the photographs -- Notes on the processes -- Acknowledgments.

Summary:

"The extraordinary collection of photographs celebrates two eye-opening "discoveries" : first, that long before the invention of true color photography photographers were producing images rich in color--tones of gold, mauve, rose, blue, and many other hues; and, second, that the world's picture archives can still yield images of startling originality, often by well-known photographers. Thus, every photograph in this book is reproduced in full color, revealing the subtle tones of salt prints, ambrotypes, albumen prints, daguerreotypes, and other techniques whose real character has been known until recently only by collectors and connoisseurs. Here are works by the legendary pioneers Talbot, Daguerre, Nadar, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, and Atget, as well as a host of astonishing pictures by unknown artists. There are also unfamiliar images by such masters as Stieglitz, August Sander, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Munkacsi, Kertész, Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White, bringing the collection up to the eve of World War II."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0810914530
9780810914537

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Photography History.
Photography Processing.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie Histoire.
art photography.
Photography

Form/genre:

photobooks.
History
Photobooks.

Added entries:

Bernard, Bruce, author.
Lloyd, Valerie, writer of added commentary.
Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987, writer of foreword.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 37097
Call No.: ID TR650.P46; ID:88-B8141
Status: Available

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