Product Details
Paperback
96 pages
5 Continents Editions
Published 2005
Book Description
Two of the major conflicts of the second half of the nineteenth century, the Crimean War and the American Civil War, gave photographers their first opportunity to approach the battlefield. Techniques at the time barred them from photographing combat, so they focused on events before and after battle. World War I brought the first aerial photography, and the opportunity for soldiers themselves to take their own pictures.
From the Publisher
The photographic collection of the Musée d’Orsay was put together in the late 1970s when the museum was created. It now contains over 55,000 prints and negatives ranging from the early days of photography to 1914. A permanent gallery was opened in Autumn 2002 to display this outstanding set of works. The Photography at Orsay series, co-published by 5 Continents Editions and the Musée d’Orsay, accompanies thematic exhibitions held at the gallery. It offers an affordable set of reference works on photography written by the museum’s specialists and illustrated with works displayed in the exhibitions, which in many cases have been reproduced for the first time.
About the Author
Joëlle Bolloch, archivist at the Musée d’Orsay, curated the photographic section of "The Last Portrait", an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in March-May 2002. |
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