"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.