Reality recorded : early documentary photography /
"Presents documentary photographs taken with calotype and wetplate cameras up to the advent of the dry plate, around 1884: the barricades in Paris in 1848 and 1871; corpses on the fields of Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny of 1858; the opening of London's first underground railway, 1862; a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Greenwich, Conn., :
New York Graphic Society,
[1974].
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| Summary: | "Presents documentary photographs taken with calotype and wetplate cameras up to the advent of the dry plate, around 1884: the barricades in Paris in 1848 and 1871; corpses on the fields of Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny of 1858; the opening of London's first underground railway, 1862; a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia, 1865; a British mental hospital patient, 1852; the bound feet of Chinese ladies, 1870. Pictures by the great photographers of England, France, and America are included - Fenton and Talbot, Bayard and Marville, Gardner, Brady and O'Sullivan ...."--Page 2 of cover. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. Based on the exhibition "From today painting is dead"-The Beginnings of Photography, sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain and held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from March-May, 1972. |
| Physical Description: | 128 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. 126-127. |
| ISBN: | 0821206133 : |