Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Artisan Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
When I Was a Photographer
Author: Felix NadarPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029456
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The first complete English translation of Nadar's intelligent and witty memoir, a series of vignettes that capture his experiences in the early days of photography. Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer—and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist—Félix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. Composed as a series of vignettes (we might view them as a series of “written photographs”), this intelligent and witty book offers stories of Nadar's experiences in the early years of photography, memorable character sketches, and meditations on history. It is a classic work, cited by writers from Walter Benjamin to Rosalind Krauss. This is its first and only complete English translation. In When I Was a Photographer (Quand j'étais photographe), Nadar tells us about his descent into the sewers and catacombs of Paris, where he experimented with the use of artificial lighting, and his ascent into the skies over Paris in a hot air balloon, from which he took the first aerial photographs. He recounts his “postal photography” during the 1870-1871 Siege of Paris—an amazing scheme involving micrographic images and carrier pigeons. He describes technical innovations and important figures in photography, and offers a thoughtful consideration of society and culture; but he also writes entertainingly about such matters as Balzac's terror of being photographed, the impact of a photograph on a celebrated murder case, and the difference between male and female clients. Nadar's memoir captures, as surely as his photographs, traces of a vanished era.
The Orientalists
Author: Lynne ThorntonPublisher: www.acr-edition.com
ISBN: 9782867700835
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, numerous painters succumbed to the charms of the Orient. Travel to distant lands was easier, and artists brought back voluptuous images filled with sun and colour. This title studies almost 150 painters, from Delacroix to Ziem. It features many lesser known masters and is suitable for collectors.
Bohemian Versus Bourgeois
Author: César GrañaPublisher: New York, Basic Books
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Giphantia
Author: Charles-François Tiphaigne de La RochePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368900536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Fine Private Library of the Late Oliver Henry Perkins, Des Moines, Iowa
Author: Oliver Henry PerkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Gentrification of the City
Author: Neil SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780415418294
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book was first published in 1986.
New Paths
Author: Cyril William BeaumontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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