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The Cromer collection of nineteenth-century French photography

Title
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.
Author
George Eastman Museum, author.
Publication
Rochester, NY : George Eastman Museum ; New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors
  • Aubenas, Sylvie
  • Challine, Éléonore
  • Handy, Ellen
  • Lewis, Jacob W.
  • Mondenard, Anne de
  • Shannon, Heather A.
Description
328 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm
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"--
Subject
  • Cromer, Gabriel, 1873-1934 > Archives
  • Cromer, Gabriel, 1873-1934
  • George Eastman Museum
  • Photography > France > Archival resources
  • Archival resources > New York (State) > Rochester
  • Archival resources
  • Photography > Archival resources
  • France
  • New York (State) > Rochester
Genre/Form
Archives.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JQF 22-1324
ISBN
  • 9780300264272
  • 0300264275
LCCN
2021037948
OCLC
1267403471
Author
George Eastman Museum, author.
Title
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.
Publisher
Rochester, NY : George Eastman Museum ; New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2022]
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Aubenas, Sylvie, contributor.
Challine, Éléonore, contributor.
Handy, Ellen, contributor.
Lewis, Jacob W., contributor.
Mondenard, Anne de, contributor.
Shannon, Heather A., contributor.
Research Call Number
JQF 22-1324
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