Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France by Hellman, Karen

Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781606065105)

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Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France by Hellman, Karen

Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France

$59.95
Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France by Hellman, Karen

Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France

$59.95
Format: Hardcover
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In the years following the announcement of the invention of photography in 1839, practitioners in France gave shape to this intriguing new medium through experimental printing techniques and innovative compositions. The rich body of work they developed proved foundational to the establishment of early photography, from the introduction of the paper negative in the late 1840s to the proliferation of more standardized equipment and photomechanical technology in the 1860s.

The essays in this elegant volume investigate the early history of the medium when the ambiguities inherent in the photograph were ardently debated. Focusing on the French photographers who worked with paper negatives, especially the key figures Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, and Charles Nègre, Real/Ideal explores photography's status as either fine art or industrial product (or both), its repertoire of subject matter, its ideological functions, and even the ever-experimental photographic process itself.


Author: Karen Hellman
ISBN-10: 1606065106
ISBN-13: 9781606065105
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.75lbs
Size: 11.70h x 9.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 95
Choice 04/01/2017
By Karen Hellman
By Karen Hellman
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Karen Hellman is assistant curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Sylvie Aubenas is the director of the Department of Photographs and Prints at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Sarah Freeman is associate conservator of paper conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Anne de Mondenard is curator at the Centre de recherché et de restauration des musées de France, Paris.

Karlyn Olvido is a former research assistant at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Paul-Louis Roubert is assistant professor at Université Paris 8 and president of the Société française de la photographie, Paris.

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