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Antiquity and photography : early views of ancient mediterranean sites

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Following the invention of the daguerreotype and calotype processes in 1839, views of ruins, classical statuary, and the antiquities of the Mediterranean and the Orient were among the first images produced by pioneer photographers. The unique accuracy and immediacy of photographs fundamentally changed aesthetic and scholarly approaches to the artifacts of the past. This book, published to coincide with the inaugural exhibition at the Getty villa, explores the intellectual underpinnings of the relationship between antiquity and photography in the period 1840-1880. Drawing on the extensive collections of the Getty museum and the Getty research institute, this illustrated volume presents an introduction to the subject, followed by a detailed discussion of the influence of photography on archaeology, by an analysis of the ways antiquity is depicted, and by biographical studies of two major photographers, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey and William James Stillman. Portfolios of works by Maxime Du Camp, John B. Greene, Francis Frith, Robert Macpherson, Adolphe Braun, and others appear between the essays.

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Our home: Shek Kip Mei 1954-2006

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Shek Kip Mei was the first public housing estate development in Hong Kong built by the British colonial government in 1954. The resettlement project was an immediate response to the need for temporary relief as a result of the massive fire that destroyed the Shek Kip Mei squatter area on Christmas Eve 1953, when over 53,000 Chinese immigrants lost their makeshift homes overnight. This carefully designed book reproduces and explains the documentation of the aerea made by Governor Sir Alexander Grantham in 1954 to the British Government on the Great Fire. It includes a letter of appeal to the Governor, statistics about the residents, but abovw all it shows in 128, mostly full page b/w photographs, the appartments of the complex and their habitants.

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Around the world: The grand tour in photo albums

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Snapshots, passenger lists, itineraries, and postcards: From Cairo to Burma and back again, authors Barbara Levine and Kirsten Jensen transport readers back to the dawn of world travel when the middle class toured the world for the first time. In beautifully designed pages Around the World traces the development of the travel photo album. The book features a wealth of turn-of-the-twentieth-century photographs and ephemera, evoking the pleasures of a time when the surroundings were taken in slowly and travel was an art of itself.

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Ciel terre mer

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L’union créative des mots d’Hélène Dufresne, et des images d’Humberto Pinochet exalte la beauté de la nature et des paysages de Charlevoix, magnifiant l’ouvrage du temps et des saisons. Les auteurs parviennent à capter l’instant magique et en extraire le caractère poétique. Ils partagent dans ce premier opus les émotions riches de ces moments éphémères.

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Hydroelectric sublime

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The Emosson region in the Swiss canton of Valais boasts a breathtaking Alpine landscape punctuated by a series of monumental feats in hydroelectric engineering, which include three dams and a power plant hidden in a cavern 600 meters below ground. In "Hydroelectric sublime", the photographers Beatrice Gorelli (born 1996) and Keiichi Kitayama (born 1987) set out to capture the area’s awe-inspiring terrain, and find themselves on a three-year odyssey uncovering the intricate bond between humans, energy and water. Across mountains, seasons and generations, the book peels back the layers of a landscape that exemplifies the coming together of nature and the man-made so sublimely or severely, depending on one’s point of view.

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Photographier en normandie 1840-1890 : Un dialogue pionnier entre les arts

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Terrain d'expérimentation pour les peintres du plein air, la Normandie a aussi joué un rôle décisif dans les débuts de la photographie. Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture et de la photographie se répondent dans cette exposition qui fait de la Normandie le lieu idéal pour mesurer l'influence réciproque des arts. Enregistrant le riche patrimoine normand, la photographie permet d'en mesurer toute l'importance mais aussi la fragilité. Elle suit la transformation des côtes par l'architecture balnéaire et l'arrivée de riches estivants, recherche le pittoresque des campagnes, s'attaque aux scènes de genre et aux vues maritimes affirmant très clairement ses ambitions artistiques.

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Reverie and reality : nineteenth-century photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection

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From its beginnings in the 1840s, one of the earliest uses of photography was to use the camera to record and distribute images of exotic countries or locales. These photographs provided a glimpse of the world to a curious public, few of whom could ever hope to visit those places in person. In addition to such obvious photographic destinations as the temples and monuments of Egypt, Greece, and Italy were added the mysterious and exotic attractions of India. In "Reverie and Reality", a visual history of India in the 19th century unfolds. Images by some of the earliest and most significant practitioners of the medium will be on view in this exhibition, including Linnaeus Tripe, Samuel Bourne, John Murray, and the Indian Lala Din Dayal. The subject matter ranges from famous architectural monuments to images of the natural landscape. The variety of humanity that inhabited this country during the time period is recorded in a series of photographs that range from scenes of daily life in villages to sumptuous and formal visits of foreign royalty. Essays accompany the lavish illustrations in this catalogue to the exhibition drawing on images from the Ehrenfeld Collection.

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Insieme

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Ce volume rassemble une sélection de photographies réalisées par les deux artistes dans deux régions géographiques éloignées l’une de l’autre. Des lieux où la nature se manifeste sous des formes expressives différentes et où la relation entre corps et espace semble assumer, à travers la combinaison de l’ombre et de la lumière, des valeurs aléatoires, parfois absolues. // This book compiles a selection of the artists’ photographs of these two Italian regions so far apart from one another. These are places where nature reveals itself through different forms of expression and where the relationship between body and space, captured in a combination of light and shade, seems to take on an inconsistent and sometimes absolute value.

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Charles Marville: Paris photographié au temps d'Haussmann

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En 1860 Haussmann créait la "commission historique de paris". C'est elle qui chargea Charles Marville de photographier, en 1865, les rues appelées à disparaître, puis, en 1877, les avenues nouvelles. Napoléon III accueillit cette initiative avec enthousiasme. "Ceci permettra de suivre à travers les siècles les transformations de la ville qui, grâce à votre infatigable activité, est aujourd'hui la plus splendide et la plus salubre des capitales de l'Europe," écrira-t-il à son préfet. Les photos de Marville qui figent l'avant et l'après Haussmann sont non seulement d'une grande beauté, mais aussi d'une importance capitale: elles racontent la plus grande mutation qu'une ville ait jamais connue.

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Paris, capitale photographique, 1920-1940

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Dès le début des années 1920, Paris s'affirme comme le lieu des avant-gardes de la photographie en Europe. Modèle de modernité au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la capitale devient un refuge pour les émigrants contraints à l'exil. Des photographes arrivés de l'étranger, tels Germaine Krull, André Kertész, Brassaï, Man Ray ou Berenice Abbott côtoient alors les Français Maurice Tabard, Roger Schall, Jean Moral, Emmanuel Sougez ou encore Pierre Boucher. C'est cette France de l'entre-deux-guerres, foyer de création où se rencontrent une multitude d'écoles photographiques, qui caractérise l'exceptionnelle collection réunie par l'historien et collectionneur Christian Bouqueret. Avec une sélection de 140 photographies, cet ouvrage propose un regard érudit et passionné sur la richesse formelle de cette "nouvelle vision photographique en France".