The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography
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The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography
W036412 | $65.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 2022. Published in association with Yale University Press, New Haven.
328 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly sepia tone). 30 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9780300264272
A deep dive into the pioneering collection of nineteenth-century French photographs, equipment, and ephemera, which is a cornerstone of the George Eastman Museum. In the early twentieth century, Parisian photographer, amateur historian, and collector Gabriel Cromer (1873–1934) amassed a collection that traced photography’s prehistory, invention, and development to about 1890. His dream was to found a national museum of the photographic arts in France. Although Cromer’s ambition was never realized, his collection was central to establishing the world’s first museum dedicated to photography: the George Eastman Museum. The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography considers the origin and circulation of the collection as well as the influence it has had on photography as a field of study. The book’s six essays, written by French and American scholars, explore the Cromer Collection’s complex passage across markets, borders, and functions. For more than half a century, curators and scholars worldwide have drawn extensively on the Gabriel Cromer Collection for exhibitions and publications; this book provides the first focused scholarly study of the foundational resource.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- France -- 1800-1900 -- Photography --
W036412 | $65.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 2022. Published in association with Yale University Press, New Haven.
328 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly sepia tone). 30 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9780300264272
A deep dive into the pioneering collection of nineteenth-century French photographs, equipment, and ephemera, which is a cornerstone of the George Eastman Museum. In the early twentieth century, Parisian photographer, amateur historian, and collector Gabriel Cromer (1873–1934) amassed a collection that traced photography’s prehistory, invention, and development to about 1890. His dream was to found a national museum of the photographic arts in France. Although Cromer’s ambition was never realized, his collection was central to establishing the world’s first museum dedicated to photography: the George Eastman Museum. The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography considers the origin and circulation of the collection as well as the influence it has had on photography as a field of study. The book’s six essays, written by French and American scholars, explore the Cromer Collection’s complex passage across markets, borders, and functions. For more than half a century, curators and scholars worldwide have drawn extensively on the Gabriel Cromer Collection for exhibitions and publications; this book provides the first focused scholarly study of the foundational resource.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- France -- 1800-1900 -- Photography --
