Title & Author:

Art and the early photographic album / edited by Stephen Bann.

Publication:

Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2011.

Description:

viii, 277 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Series:

Studies in the history of art ; 77
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts symposium papers ; LIV

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Photographic album as a cultural accumulator / Stephen Bann -- Before photography : the album and the French graphic tradition in the early nineteenth century / Benedict Leca -- Art history in the age of photography : Constant Leber's Pantographie of 1865 and the "Painful Birth of the Art Book" / Pascal Griener -- Mystery of the album of the Société héliographique / André Gunthert -- Camille Silvy : the photography of works of art as record and restoration / Mark Haworth-Booth -- Fawning over marbles : Robert and Gerardine MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures and the role of photographs in the reception of the antique / Elizabeth Anne McCauley -- Facsimile, scholarship, and commerce : aspects of the photographically illustrated art book (1839-1880) / Anthony Hamber -- Michelangelo's frescoes through the camera's lens : the photographic album and visual identity / Philippe Jarjat -- Vetting the canon : Galerie contemporaine, 1876-1884 / Austen Barron Bailly -- Opéra disseminated : Charles Garnier's Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris (1875-1881) / Martin Bressani and Peter Sealy -- Edges of art : photographic albums, archaeology, and representation / Frederick N. Bohrer -- India : the 1890 album and the canon of Mughal architecture / Michael Charlesworth.
Dust jacket.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

Summary:

Studies in the History of Art, Volume 77. This is a publication by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), the Gallery's research institute. The development of photography from the mid-nineteenth century onward transformed the conditions of appreciation, marketing, and distribution of works of art. The role of the photographic album in this history has not been previously explored in a published study. Here, in twelve collected essays, scholars discuss the many different types of albums that were pioneers in this change, the photographic processes they represent, and their relationship to older reproductive media, with examples drawn mainly from nineteenth-century France, Great Britain, and Germany.

ISBN:

9780300135909 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0300135904 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art and photography Congresses.
Photograph albums Congresses.
Art et photographie Congrès.
Photographies Albums Congrès.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Art and photography.
Photograph albums.
Kunst.
Architektur.
Photographie.
Photoalbum.
Inventar.
Sammlung.
Fotografialbum 1800-talet.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Bann, Stephen.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 77.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium series ; 54.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290538
Call No.: BIB 233587
Status: Available