PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION
by Hamber, Anthony
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- 1584563710
- ISBN 13
- 9781584563716
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About This Item
- Robert Desmarais, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
"Any student of early photography -- or of the international exposition housed in the famous Crystal Palace in London -- will covet this magisterial work of careful scholarship and beautiful bookmaking."
- Michael Dirda, "best books list," The Washington Post
"Richly illustrated and scholarly."
- The Royal Photographic Society Journal
"'Ever since the Great exhibition I have felt that a new era had commenced for photography', said William Henry Fox Talbot -- inventor of photography on paper.... In charting the pioneering and diverse role of photography at the Great exhibition, this important study plots the start of photography's international journey which set the foundations for the new purpose and place of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum today."
- Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A, from the Foreword
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, held in London from May to October of 1851, was the genesis of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Published to accompany the opening of the V&A Photography Centre, this book makes extensive use of the V&A collections and archival material related to the 1851 Great Exhibition.
Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition is the first comprehensive study of the seminal gathering of photographs and photographic equipment that marked the global launch of the form. It examines the role and impact of photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition and beyond, drawing together two decades of research to create a broader understanding of the step-change in image making and distribution represented by that event. With a Foreword by Tristram Hunt and an essay on photoscience by Nicholas Burnett.
While the Great Exhibition has received a variety of examinations, its role in exhibiting and furthering the cause and exploitation of photography and its impact on illustration, printing, publishing, and the arts has been largely underappreciated. More broadly, 1851 saw a massive change in information management: in the creation and dissemination of visually based graphic information characterized by images of the building, its contents and their display that collectively constituted the Great Exhibition. Photography played a critical role in this quantum leap.
The scale and scope of photography of the Great Exhibition is made evident through reproductions of images produced by a wide range of amateur and professional photographers who documented the Great Exhibition, some of which are the only known images of now lost works of art. Also shown and examined are prints produced by traditional reprographics and lithographs and the photographic originals from which they were derived.
The result of more than twenty years of research, this study is based on a number of contemporary sources including official publications, the archive of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, the correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, letters, newspapers, books, and articles in serial and periodical publications, as well as the Reports by the Juries, from which all 154 photographic images are reproduced in these pages.
Anthony Hamber is an expert on 19th century photography and the illustrated book, the contribution of photography to other forms of illustration, and the application of photography to art publishing. His first monograph, A Higher Branch of the Art; Photographing the Fine Arts in England 1839-1880 (Gordon & Breach, 1996) is a fundamental source of information in its field.
Available in the UK and Ireland from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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- Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (US)
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- Title
- PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION
- Author
- Hamber, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 361
- ISBN 10
- 1584563710
- ISBN 13
- 9781584563716
- Publisher
- Oak Knoll Press and V&A Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New Castle, Delaware and London
- Date Published
- 2018
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