Photography of Gustave le Gray

Name: Photography of Gustave le Gray
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ISBN: 9780226392103

ISBN-10: 0226392104

ISBN-13: 9780226392103

Edition: 1987

Authors: Eugenia Parry Janis, Sarah C. Mollman

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Gustave Le Gray (1820-1882) was one of the most technically accomplished and aesthetically enlightened of the early "artist-photographers." Trained as a painter of portraits and landscapes, Le Gray was attracted in the 1840s to the artistic potential of photographic processes. As a photographer he evolved and refined much of photography's primary aesthetic theory. By 1855 he had influenced, if not taught, every important photographer in France. Drawing on entirely new material Eugenia Parry Janis fully analyzes the life and work of Le Gray and demonstrates the originality of his artistic achievement in the context of discoveries about his personal and professional history. Janis,…

Book details

List price: $185.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/24/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 7.87" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 3.366
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction, Under the Dark Cloth: A Dreamer's Intimate Spaces



Le Gray at Liberty: The Dangers of Italy at Carnival Time, 1843-1850



Le Gray's Atelier: The Experimentalist ""With a Little Perseverance,"" 1850-1855



Chasing Victor's Shadows: Architecture and the Missions hï¿½liographiques, 1851



The Forest and the Trees: Monsieur Denecourt's Little Blue Arrows, 1849-c. 1857



Waves, Riggings, Ports: The Seascapes, 1855-1860



Military Maneuvers: The Camp de Chï¿½lons