IMAGINING PARADISE - Sheila J. Foster, Manfred Heiting, Rachel Stuhlman
Imagining Paradise is the first book to present the treasures of the incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House. It features over 250 rare books, all beautifully illustrated and accompanied by commentary from eminent specialists. This large, beautiful volume, as it should be, covers the history of photography, its practitioners and processes, from bucolic landscapes to travel and exploration, science and medicine, literature and celebrities. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot, the musings of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith, the vision of Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and 291, and the exceptional published and unpublished books of Alvin Langdon Coburn. It documents works illustrated with original salt prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, photogravures, carbon prints, collotypes and Woodburytypes. It includes translations into five languages of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre's instruction manual describing the daguerreotyping process, as well as works of exceptional beauty, such as a red leather Bible, edged in bronze, illustrated in the 1860s with 56 photographs by Francis Frith. No other library in the world possesses such breadth and depth of the history, aesthetics and technology of photography, and no other book can put them in the reader's hands so comprehensively. This exceptional collection of rare books is based on Kodak's Eastman Historical Photographic Collection, which included the collections of many of the world's leading scientists, historians and collectors of photography.
Published by Steidl/The George Eastman House, 2007
288 pages
27.4 x 31.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3865214621
Imagining Paradise is the first book to present the treasures of the incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House. It features over 250 rare books, all beautifully illustrated and accompanied by commentary from eminent specialists. This large, beautiful volume, as it should be, covers the history of photography, its practitioners and processes, from bucolic landscapes to travel and exploration, science and medicine, literature and celebrities. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot, the musings of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith, the vision of Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and 291, and the exceptional published and unpublished books of Alvin Langdon Coburn. It documents works illustrated with original salt prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, photogravures, carbon prints, collotypes and Woodburytypes. It includes translations into five languages of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre's instruction manual describing the daguerreotyping process, as well as works of exceptional beauty, such as a red leather Bible, edged in bronze, illustrated in the 1860s with 56 photographs by Francis Frith. No other library in the world possesses such breadth and depth of the history, aesthetics and technology of photography, and no other book can put them in the reader's hands so comprehensively. This exceptional collection of rare books is based on Kodak's Eastman Historical Photographic Collection, which included the collections of many of the world's leading scientists, historians and collectors of photography.
Published by Steidl/The George Eastman House, 2007
288 pages
27.4 x 31.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3865214621
Imagining Paradise is the first book to present the treasures of the incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House. It features over 250 rare books, all beautifully illustrated and accompanied by commentary from eminent specialists. This large, beautiful volume, as it should be, covers the history of photography, its practitioners and processes, from bucolic landscapes to travel and exploration, science and medicine, literature and celebrities. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot, the musings of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith, the vision of Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and 291, and the exceptional published and unpublished books of Alvin Langdon Coburn. It documents works illustrated with original salt prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, photogravures, carbon prints, collotypes and Woodburytypes. It includes translations into five languages of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre's instruction manual describing the daguerreotyping process, as well as works of exceptional beauty, such as a red leather Bible, edged in bronze, illustrated in the 1860s with 56 photographs by Francis Frith. No other library in the world possesses such breadth and depth of the history, aesthetics and technology of photography, and no other book can put them in the reader's hands so comprehensively. This exceptional collection of rare books is based on Kodak's Eastman Historical Photographic Collection, which included the collections of many of the world's leading scientists, historians and collectors of photography.
Published by Steidl/The George Eastman House, 2007
288 pages
27.4 x 31.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3865214621
