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Camille Silvy: River Scene, France

Mark Haworth-Booth

Silvy's photograph, hailed as a masterpiece when it was first exhibited in Edinburgh in 1858, is accompanied here by newly commissioned photographs by Stephen Shore. The author discusses Silvy's photograph in the context of attitudes of the day toward photography.

"Well researched and wonderfully genial."
—On Paper

122 pages
7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches
16 color and 36 b/w illustrations
1 color foldout
ISBN 978-0-89236-205-9
paperback

Getty Publications
Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum

1992

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