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Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884
- Title
- Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884 / Sylvie Aubenas ; with contributions by Anne Cartier-Bresson [and others] ; edited by Gordon Baldwin ; [translators: John Goodman, Sharon Grevet, Stephen Pinson].
- Author
- Aubenas, Sylvie.
- Publication
- Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, ©2002.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 401 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 x 30 cm
- Summary
- "Gustave Le Gray's life, vividly reconstructed here by Sylvie Aubenas, reads like a romantic novel. As a young painter in Rome, he fell in love with and impetuously married a young and beautiful Italian woman by whom he had six children. He then returned to Paris to take up photography and received important commissions from Napoleon III. He also astonished viewers with his painterly landscapes and ravishing seascapes." "In an abrupt reversal of fortune, Le Gray's backers wearied of his financial irresponsibility, and he was forced to declare bankruptcy and give up his studio. He abandoned his wife and children and fled Paris on a voyage to the Mediterranean with Alexandre Dumas. After traveling on his own to Beirut and Baalbek, the photographer settled in Alexandria and then Cairo, where he became drawing master to the ruler's children. He occasionally made photographs until his death in poverty there in 1884, leaving behind some of the most dazzling photographic images of his era." "This catalogue, a complete retrospective of the work of nineteenth-century photographer Gustave Le Gray, is the result of years of combing public and private collections and archives in Europe and North America. It offers, as no previous publication has, both a narrative of the photographer's life and as assessment of Le Gray's unique and important place in the history of photography." "This volume is being published to accompany the exhibition Gustave Le Gray, Photographer, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and was originally produced in French to accompany the exhibition of Le Gray's work organized by the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-393) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Contents
- Foreword / Deborah Gribbon -- Preface / Jean-Pierre Angremy -- Gustave Le Gray, Between Shadow and Light / Sylvie Aubenas -- The Life of Gustave Le Gray -- The Youth of a Painter / Sylvie Aubenas -- Barriere de Clichy: A "University" of Photography / Sylvie Aubenas -- Boulevard des Capucines: The Glory of the Empire / Sylvie Aubenas -- The Unfinished Odyssey / Claude Schopp -- The Flight into Egypt: An Exile without Return / Sylvie Aubenas, Mercedes Volait -- The Work of Gustave Le Gray -- Gustave Le Gray, Heliographer-Artist / Henri Zerner -- From the Point of View of Painting / Barthelemy Jobert -- To Unite Science with Art / Sylvie Aubenas -- The Expansive Soul of Gustave Le Gray: The Panorama / Joachim Bonnemaison -- The Negatives of Gustave Le Gray in the Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris / Anne Cartier-Bresson -- On Photographic Collaboration: Firmin Eugene Le Dien and Gustave Le Gray / Sylvie Aubenas -- From One Century to the Next: The Fate of Le Gray's Work in Photographic Collections / Sylvie Aubenas -- Chronology / Sylvie Aubenas -- Biographical Essay, 1860 / Leon Maufras -- Death-Date Inventory -- Signatures, Notes, and Commercial Marks.
- Call Number
- MFX+ (Le Gray) 02-7373
- ISBN
- 0892366710
- 9780892366712
- 0892366729
- 9780892366729
- LCCN
- 2002001386
- OCLC
- 50335290
- Author
- Aubenas, Sylvie.
- Title
- Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884 / Sylvie Aubenas ; with contributions by Anne Cartier-Bresson [and others] ; edited by Gordon Baldwin ; [translators: John Goodman, Sharon Grevet, Stephen Pinson].
- Imprint
- Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, ©2002.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-393) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
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- Added Author
- Le Gray, Gustave, 1820-1884.Baldwin, Gordon, 1939-2020.J. Paul Getty Museum.
- Research Call Number
- MFX+ (Le Gray) 02-7373