Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors
by Dahlberg, Laurie
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- 0691118795
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Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, 208 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This lavishly illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regnault (1810-1878) in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regnault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Société Française de Photographie (S.F.P.) and as the maker of more than two hundred calotype (paper negative) portraits and landscapes. His photographic and scientific careers intersected a third field with his appointment in 1852 as director of the Sèvres porcelain works.Readers are treated to Regnault's own beguiling pastoral, garden, and forest scenes; striking portraits of the scientists and artists in his circle of friends; quirky images of acoustic experiments; and an insider's view of the Sèvres porcelain works. Regnault's richly varied photographs also encompass perhaps the most extensive group of family portraits in early photography, and his romanticized landscapes reflect a moment when the rural outskirts of Paris were being aggressively suburbanized and industrialized. Record # 352039
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- Title
- Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors
- Author
- Dahlberg, Laurie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0691118795
- ISBN 13
- 9780691118796
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton NJ
- Date Published
- 2005
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