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THE GERNSHEIM COLLECTION
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Roy Flukinger, Alison Nordstrom (Foreword), Mark Haworth-Booth |
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Hardback |
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£67.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0292723369 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780292723368 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2010 |
| Series: |
Harry Ransom Center Photography Series |
| Pages: |
362 |
| Description: |
This selection of masterpieces from the Gernsheim Collection, one of the world's most important collections of photography, effectively constitutes a visual history of photography from the earliest-known photograph to images of the mid-twentieth century. |
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Winner, Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association, 2012The Gernsheim Collection is one of the most important collections of photography in the world. Amassed by the renowned husband-and-wife team of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim between 1945 and 1963, it contains an unparalleled range of images, beginning with the world's earliest-known photograph from nature, made by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826. The Gernsheim Collection includes some 35,000 major and representative photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; a research library of some 3,600 books, journals, and published articles; about 250 autographed letters and manuscripts; and more than 200 pieces of early photographic equipment. Its encyclopedic scope-as well as the expertise and taste with which the Gernsheims built the collection-makes the Gernsheim Collection one of the world's premier resources for the study and appreciation of the development of photography.Published to coincide with a landmark exhibition staged by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which owns the collection, this volume presents masterpieces of the Gernsheim Collection, along with lesser-known images of great historical significance. Arranged in chronological order, this selection effectively constitutes a visual history of photography from its beginnings to the mid-twentieth century. Each full-page image is accompanied by an extensive annotation in which Roy Flukinger describes the photograph's place in the evolution of photography and also within the Gernsheim Collection. Flukinger also provides an enlightening introduction in which he traces the Gernsheims' passionate careers as collectors and pioneering historians of photography, showing how their untiring efforts significantly contributed to the acceptance of photography as a fine art and as a field worthy of intellectual inquiry. Appreciations of the Gernsheim Collection by Alison Nordstrom and Mark Haworth-Booth confirm its singular importance as a collection of outstanding breadth and depth in the history of photography. |
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195 color and b&w illus. |
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US |
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University of Texas Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association 2012 (United |
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