Photography : discovery and invention : papers delivered at a symposium celebrating the invention of photography / organized by the Department of Photographs and held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, January 30, 1989.

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Publication:

Malibu, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990.

Description:

116 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / John Walsh -- Introduction / Weston Naef -- Eighteen thirty-nine: the birth of photography / Beaumont Newhall -- 'A wonderful illustration of necromancy': significant Talbot experimental prints in the J. Paul Getty Museum / Larry J. Schaef -- Souvenirs of the invention of photography on paper: Bayard, Talbot, and the triumph of negative-positive photography / Nancy B. Keeler -- 'A glaring act of scientific piracy?' / André Jammes -- Captain Brewster, calotypist / Graham Smith -- Sir Thomas Phillipps: photographic memoirs of a 'vellomaniac' / Eugenia Parry Janis -- Early photography and modernism / John Szarkowski -- An artist's persepctive on the photomechanical alternative to silver / Richard Benson.

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ISBN:

0892361778 (paperback)
9780892361779 (paperback)

Subject:

Photography History Congresses.
Photography.
Photographie.
Photographie Histoire Congrès.
Fotografie.
Photographie 1870-1914.

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings
History

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J. Paul Getty Museum. Department of Photographs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 77031
Call No.: ID TR15.P48 1990; ID:92-B835
Status: Available

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