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The Cromer collection of nineteenth-century French photography / George Eastman Museum ; with contributions by Sylvie Aubenas, Éléonore Challine, Ellen Handy, Jacob W. Lewis, Anne de Mondenard, and Heather A. Shannon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George Eastman Museum, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cromer, Gabriel, 1873-1934--Archives.
- Cromer, Gabriel.
- George Eastman Museum.
- Photography--France--Archival resources.
- Photography.
- Archival resources--New York (State)--Rochester.
- Archival resources.
- Cromer, Gabriel, 1873-1934.
- Photography--Archival resources.
- France.
- New York (State)--Rochester.
- Genre:
- Archives.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : George Eastman Museum ; New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "In the early 20th century, Parisian photographer, amateur historian, and collector Gabriel Cromer (1873-1934) amassed a vast collection that traced photography's prehistory, invention, and subsequent development to about 1890. His dream was to found a national museum of the photographic arts in France. Although Cromer's ambition was never realized, his collection was central to the establishment of the world's first museum dedicated to photography: the George Eastman Museum. The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography considers the origin and circulation of the collection as well as the influence it has had on photography as a field of study. The book's six essays, written by French and American scholars, explore the Cromer Collection's complex passage across markets, borders, and functions. For more than half a century, curators and scholars worldwide have drawn extensively on the Gabriel Cromer Collection for exhibitions and publications; this book provides the first focused scholarly study of the foundational resource"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A Story of Labels : Gabriel Cromer, the Photographer, the Collection, and the Museum / Éléonore Challine
- A Fraternity of Rivals : The Circle of Collectors around Gabriel Cromer / Anne de Mondenard
- From Paris to Rochester : Eastman Kodak's 1939 Purchase of the Gabriel Cromer Collection / Heather A. Shannon
- A New History of Photography : Beaumont Newhall and the Gabriel Cromer Collection / Ellen Handy
- A Belated Acquisition : The Gabriel Cromer Collection at the Bibliothèque nationale / Sylvie Aubenas
- Making Photography's History in Interwar Paris : Gabriel Cromer and Walter Benjamin / Jacob W. Lewis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300264272
- 0300264275
- OCLC:
- 1267403471
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