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Imagining Paradise is the first book to showcase the treasures of the incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at the George Eastman House. It features more than 250 rare books, all beautifully illustrated and accompanied by commentary from leading experts. This large and beautiful volume, as it should be, covers the history of photography, its practitioners, and its processes, ranging from bucolic landscapes to travel and exploration, and encompassing science and medicine, literature, and celebrities. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot, the reveries of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith, the vision of Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz’s *Camera Work* and *291*, as well as the exceptional books—published and unpublished—of Alvin Langdon Coburn.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 daguerreotype 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 collection can bring them to the reader in such a comprehensive manner. This exceptional collection of rare books was assembled from the Eastman Historical Photographic Collection of the Kodak Company, which brought together the collections of many of the world’s most important scientists, historians, and photography collectors.
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 showcase the treasures of the incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at the George Eastman House. It features more than 250 rare books, all beautifully illustrated and accompanied by commentary from leading experts. This large and beautiful volume, as it should be, covers the history of photography, its practitioners, and its processes, ranging from bucolic landscapes to travel and exploration, and encompassing science and medicine, literature, and celebrities. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot, the reveries of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith, the vision of Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz’s *Camera Work* and *291*, as well as the exceptional books—published and unpublished—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 daguerreotype 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 collection can bring them to the reader in such a comprehensive manner. This exceptional collection of rare books was assembled from the Eastman Historical Photographic Collection of the Kodak Company, which brought together the collections of many of the world’s most important scientists, historians, and photography collectors.
Published by Steidl/The George Eastman House, 2007
288 pages
27.4 x 31.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3865214621
