Real/Ideal - Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France

Karen Hellman

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English

Getty Publications
30 August 2016

Photographs: collections; Places in old photographs

In the years following the announcement of the invention of photography in 1839, practitioners in France gave shape to this intriguing new medium through experimental printing techniques and innovative compositions. The rich body of work they developed proved foundational to the establishment of early photography, from the introduction of the paper negative in the late 1840s to the proliferation of more standardized equipment and photomechanical technology in the 1860s.

The essays in this elegant volume investigate the early history of the medium when the ambiguities inherent in the photograph were ardently debated. Focusing on the French photographers who worked with paper negatives, especially the key figures Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, and Charles Nègre, Real/Ideal explores photography’s status as either fine art or industrial product (or both), its repertoire of subject matter, its ideological functions, and even the ever-experimental photographic process itself.

By: Karen Hellman
Imprint: Getty Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 248mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1.672kg
ISBN: 9781606065105
ISBN 10: 1606065106
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

KAREN HELLMAN is assistant curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where SARAH FREEMAN is associate conservator of paper conservation. SYLVIE AUBENAS is the director of the department of photographs and prints at the Bibliothe que Nationale de France, Paris. ANNE DE MODENARD is curator at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Muse es de France, Paris. PAUL-LOUIS ROUBERT is assistant professor at Universite Paris 8 and president of the Socie te franc aise de la photographie, Paris. KARLYN OLVIDO is a graduate student in the history of photography at the University of California, Riverside.