The photographs in this book span photography's first century, 1839-1939.
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One of the most beautiful books you can own...,
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This review is from: The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century (Hardcover)
I stumbled upon this book in New York a few years back and was immediately stunned by its beauty and quality. The Gilman Paper Company apparently started their collection well before the current photography craze and amassed one of the most outstanding collections that you can imagine. Most of these photos are from the very earliest days of the medium and many are in the sepia tone that I personally love. The quality of reproduction is so good that you can actually frame some of the photos! It's astounding...well worth obtaining for any art book collector.
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I purchased this book in conjunction with The Metropolitan Museum exhibit of the same name. I spent hours in the exhibit, and I spent hours pouring over the lush, and beautifully reproduced images in this book. I've always been fascinated with the photographic process, and this book explores it down to the roots. I've walked away amazed that someone figured out how to look at something, and through a chemical process tranfer ones vision onto paper. (Not to mention concocting the chemical formula) A stunning book, well worth the price.
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This is an amazing book,
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The Waking Dream is a phenomenal chronicle of the history of photography. My used copy appears to be in excellent condition. I bought this book because a friend loaned me a copy, and I knew that I had to have my own. Some of these photos are historical gems. Others record dark moments in American history; however, photography provides a record of these disturbing events.I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in photography.
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This book and the exhibition it accompanies begin with the invention of photography in England, not because it occurred there first, for it was invented in France at the same time, but because the birth of photography and its earliest art can only be seen in the works of the British photographer William Henry Fox Talbot. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
albumen silver print, salted paper print, autochrome process, paper photography, platinum print, photogenic drawings, photographic experiments, paper negatives, photographic society, glass negatives, earliest photographs, architectural views, silver prints Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Man Ray, Roger Fenton, Alfred Stieglitz, Gustave Le Gray, Julia Margaret Cameron, Maria Morris Hambourg, New York, William Henry Fox Talbot, Alexander Rodchenko, Edward Steichen, Lewis Carroll, Robert Howlett, Second Empire, Walker Evans, Abu Simbel, Alexander Gardner, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Dorothea Lange, Holland Day, Louis de Clercq, Robert Macpherson New!
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This book and the exhibition it accompanies begin with the invention of photography in England, not because it occurred there first, for it was invented in France at the same time, but because the birth of photography and its earliest art can only be seen in the works of the British photographer William Henry Fox Talbot. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
albumen silver print, salted paper print, autochrome process, paper photography, platinum print, photogenic drawings, photographic experiments, paper negatives, photographic society, glass negatives, earliest photographs, architectural views, silver prints Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Man Ray, Roger Fenton, Alfred Stieglitz, Gustave Le Gray, Julia Margaret Cameron, Maria Morris Hambourg, New York, William Henry Fox Talbot, Alexander Rodchenko, Edward Steichen, Lewis Carroll, Robert Howlett, Second Empire, Walker Evans, Abu Simbel, Alexander Gardner, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Dorothea Lange, Holland Day, Louis de Clercq, Robert Macpherson New!
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- The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot on 5 pages
- American Photographs by Walker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Walker Evans (Aperture Masters of Photography) by Walker Evans in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde on page 175, and Back Matter
- New Mexico (Rookie Read-About Geography) by Cynthia Walker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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