Real/ideal : photography in mid-nineteenth-century France /

Real/ideal : photography in mid-nineteenth-century France /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, author.
Imprint:	Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2016] ©2016
Description:	xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	J. Paul Getty Museum -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions. J. Paul Getty Museum. Calotype -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. Photography -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. Photograph collections -- California -- Los Angeles -- Exhibitions. Calotype. Photograph collections. Photography. California -- Los Angeles. France. Exhibition catalogs. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10835359

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Other authors / contributors:	Hellman, Karen, editor. Aubenas, Sylvie, writer of added commentary. Freeman, Sarah, 1971- writer of added commentary. Mondenard, Anne de, writer of added commentary. Roubert, Paul-Louis, writer of added commentary. McElhone, John P., translator.
ISBN:	9781606065105 1606065106
Notes:	Includes index. "This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Real/Ideal: Photography in France, 1847-1860, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from August 30 to November 27, 2016"--Provided by publisher.
Summary:	"Accompanies an exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and explores the early history of photography in France, focusing on the photographers who worked with paper negatives, in particular Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, and Charles Nègre"--

Table of Contents:

Real/ideal: mid-nineteenth-century French photography / Karen Hellman
The introduction of negative-positive photography in France, 1843-60 / Anne de Mondenard
A bourgeois ambition: photography and the Salon des beaux-arts during the Second Empire / Paul-Louis Roubert
A "fashionable" art: the first golden age of photography in France / Sylvie Aubenas
The art and science of the paper negative / Sarah Freeman.