La vieille photographie depuis Daguerre

The first decades of photography, from studio portraits to distant monuments and battlefields, are reproduced in prints from...

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The first decades of photography, from studio portraits to distant monuments and battlefields, are reproduced in prints from La vieille photographie depuis Daguerre jusqu'à 1870. The book was published in Paris by Henri Lefebvre in 1935, so these are later reproductions of nineteenth-century photographs. Actors, artists, politicians and family groups sit beside American Civil War camps and vessels, Austrian deputies, French officers, Egyptian temples and Indian religious sites, with Furness Abbey and Gibraltar among the views. Together they show the many uses of early photography, from personal likeness and documentary record to travel image and military observation, with the dress and studio arrangements of the original sittings.

The first decades of photography, from studio portraits to distant monuments and battlefields, are reproduced in prints from La vieille photographie depuis Daguerre jusqu'à 1870. The book was published in Paris by Henri Lefebvre in 1935, so these are later reproductions of nineteenth-century photographs. Actors, artists, politicians and family groups sit beside American Civil War camps and vessels, Austrian deputies, French officers, Egyptian temples and Indian religious sites, with Furness Abbey and Gibraltar among the views. Together they show the many uses of early photography, from personal likeness and documentary record to travel image and military observation, with the dress and studio arrangements of the original sittings.

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