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Camille Silvy: River Scene, France - Haworth-Booth, Mark
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The subject of this book, which is the first to be devoted to a single photograph, is Camille Silvy's remarkable River Scene . Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first exhibited in France in 1859, the photograph is accompanied here by newly commissioned color photographs by noted photographer Stephen Shore. In a provocative essay, Haworth-Booth discusses the history of the photograph in the context of attitudes of the day toward photography and photographic exhibitions, outlines the influences on Silvy, and examines his ...

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Camille Silvy: River Scene, France 1993, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780892362059

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