Le daguerréotype français : un objet photographique / ouvrage collectif sous la responsabilité scientifique de Quentin Bajac et Dominique Planchon-de Font-Réaulx.

Title & Author:

Le daguerréotype français : un objet photographique / ouvrage collectif sous la responsabilité scientifique de Quentin Bajac et Dominique Planchon-de Font-Réaulx.

Publication:

Description:

430 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 x 30 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, May 13-Aug. 17, 2003, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 22, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-421) and index.

Summary:

On January 7, 1839, at a session of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, the physicist François Arago presents a new method to reproduce mechanically and chemically, without manual intervention, the images that form in the dark room: the daguerreotype, marking the official birth of photography. Single image, on copper plate covered with silver, the changing reflections, polished and often reflective as a mirror, Daguerre's invention was to permanently change the gaze on the world and its representations, artistic as scientists. It is this "new art in the middle of an old civilization", in the words of the scientist Gay-Lussac in 1839, the exhibition and the book intend to discover, focusing on French production, all its diversity.

ISBN:

2711845753
9782711845750

Subject:

Daguerreotype France Exhibitions.
Photography France History 19th century Exhibitions.
Daguerréotype France Expositions.
Photographie France Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Daguerreotype.
Photography.
Daguerreotypie.
France.
History of photography France 19th century

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Bajac, Quentin.
Font-Réaulx, Dominique de.
Musée d'Orsay.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 228791
Call No.: TR365 .D3 2003
Status: Available

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