The Birth of Photography
Highlights of the Gernsheim Collection
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The historian of photography Helmut Gernsheim (1913–1995) owned the largest photography collection in the world. For the first time in half a century, both its sections are reunited in an exhibition catalog: the historical part, housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and the contemporary collection in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany. With roughly 220 outstanding photographs, the catalog affords unprecedented insights into the matchless history of the Gernsheim Collection as well as a fascinating overview of the history of photography, beginning with the world's first photographic image by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.
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The Birth of Photography, Alfried Wieczorek, Claude W. Sui, David Coleman, Stephanie Oeben, Sheila J. Foster, Shin Maekawa, Barbara N. Brown
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- Released
- 2012
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- (Hardcover),
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- Title
- The Birth of Photography
- Subtitle
- Highlights of the Gernsheim Collection
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Alfried Wieczorek, Claude W. Sui, David Coleman, Stephanie Oeben, Sheila J. Foster, Shin Maekawa, Barbara N. Brown
- Publisher
- Kehrer
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 3868283307
- ISBN13
- 9783868283303
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- The historian of photography Helmut Gernsheim (1913–1995) owned the largest photography collection in the world. For the first time in half a century, both its sections are reunited in an exhibition catalog: the historical part, housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and the contemporary collection in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany. With roughly 220 outstanding photographs, the catalog affords unprecedented insights into the matchless history of the Gernsheim Collection as well as a fascinating overview of the history of photography, beginning with the world's first photographic image by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.