Title & Author:

The Golden age of British photography, 1839-1900 : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, Science Museum, London, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh / edited and introduced by Mark Haworth-Booth.

Publication:

Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, ©1984.
New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Viking Penguin

Description:

189 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 6 June - 19 August 1984, and at 5 other institutions through 18 May 1986.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (page 189) and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- The dawning of an age Chauncy Hare Townshend, eyewitness / Mark Haworth-Booth -- The daguerreotype : a new wonder / Antoine Claudet, Philip Henry Delamotte, Horatio Ross, T. R. Williams -- The calotype era : David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Calvert Richard Jones, William Henry Fox Talbot, John Whistler -- The circle of William Henry Fox Talbot / Carolyn Bloore -- Picturesque Britain and the industrial age : Roger Fenton, Edward Fox, Robert Howlett, John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Henry White -- Roger Fenton and the making of a photographic establishment / Valerie Lloyd -- The grand tour : Francis Bedford, Francis Frith, Frank Mason Good, Robert Macpherson, James Robertson -- High art photography : in search of an ideal : William Lake Price, Oscar G. Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson -- Exploring the empire : Samuel Bourne, Philip H. Egerton, John Murray, The Royal Engineers, Linnaeus Tripe -- Aristocratic amateurs : Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Clementina , Lady Hawarden ; Henry Arthur Herbert, The Rossetti album, David Wilkie Wynfield -- Julia Margaret Cameron : Christian pictorialist / Mike Weaver -- Street life : Thomas Annan, Henry Dixon and Alfred and John Bool, John Thomson -- The art of photography : fulfilling the vision : James Craig Annan, Peter Henry Emerson, Frederick H. Evans -- Peter Henry Emerson : art and solitude / Ian Jeffrey -- James Craig Annan : brave days in Glasgow / William Buchanan -- Paul Martin and the modern era.
Library c. 1: published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Summary:

The dawning of an age Chauncy Hare Townshend, eyewitness -- The daguerreotype : a new wonder -- The calotype era -- The circle of William Henry Fox Talbot -- Picturesque Britain and the industrial age -- Roger Fenton and the making of a photographic establishment -- The grand tour -- High art photography : in search of an ideal -- Exploring the empire -- Aristocratic amateurs -- Julia Margaret Cameron : Christian pictorialist -- Street life -- The art of photography : fulfilling the vision -- Peter Henry Emerson : art and solitude -- James Craig Annan : brave days in Glasgow -- Paul Martin and the modern era.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0893811440 (pbk.)
9780893811440 (pbk.)
0893811459 (U.S.A. museum ed.)
9780893811457 (U.S.A. museum ed.)
0905209672 (VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM)
9780905209678 (VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM)

Subject:

Photography Great Britain History.
Photographie Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Photography.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
History.

Added entries:

Haworth-Booth, Mark, editor.
Haworth-Booth, Mark
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Aperture, Inc.
Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 142088
Call No.: TR57.G6 (ID:85-B26541)
Status: Available

Location: Library study room photo 142087
Call No.: TR57.G6 (PO13236)
Status: Available