Unknown Paris - Hardcover

Harris, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565848683 ISBN 13: 9781565848689

Publisher: The New Press, 2004

Synopsis

Rare Book

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Review:

"An urbanist historian, a genuine romanticist, a lover of Paris, a Balzac of the camera, from whose work we can weave a large tapestry of French civilization." — Berenice Abbott

"The earliest expression of true photographic art." —Ansel Adams

"Without Atget, nobody could really see Paris." —Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

About the Author:

David Harris is an independent curator and photographic historian, specializing in nineteenth-century and contemporary architectural and landscape photography. He was associate curator of photograph at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal for ten years. He currently teaches in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, Toronto. In addition to numerous essays and articles, he is the author of Of Battle and Beauty:Felice Beato's Photographs of China in 1860, Gabor Szilasi: Photographs, 1954-1996, and Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1565848683
• ISBN 13: 9781565848689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208