Descrição
“This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition The waking dream, photography’s first century, selections from the Gilman Paper Company collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 25-July 4, 1993; Edinburgh International Festival, City Arts Centre, Edingburgh, Scotland, August 7-October 2, 1993; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1993-94.”–Title page verso.
xxii, 384 pp.; il. p/b e cor; 29 cm.
Preface / Howard Gilman —
Foreword / Philippe de Montebello —
Introduction / Maria Morris Hambourg —
Picturing Victorian Britain —
Photography as art in France —
Extending the Grand Tour —
America: an insistent present —
Turn of the century: chrysalis of the modern —
Modern perspectives —
Catalogue of the photographs: Maria Morris Hambourg, Pierre Apraxine, Malcolm Daniel, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Virginia Heckert.
