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Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition
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"This book is the first comprehensive study of the seminal gathering of photographs and photographic equipment that marked the global launch of the form. Published to accompany the opening of the V...
"This book is the first comprehensive study of the seminal gathering of photographs and photographic equipment that marked the global launch of the form. Published to accompany the opening of the V&A Photography Centre, the book makes extensive use of the V&A collections and archival material related to the 1851 Great Exhibition." -- provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Anthony Hamber ; with a foreword by Tristram Hunt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press ; London : V&A Publishing, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xx, 394 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm + Includes chart
- ISBNs
- 9781584563716, 1584563710, 9781851779833, 1851779833
- OCLC
- on1077511575
- Catalog to accompany the opening of the V&A Photography Centre, October 2018.
- Includes chart with 2 plates: "Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations 1851, Plan Shewing the Disposition of the Goods in the Galleries. To accompany the report of the Royal Commissioners"--Inside back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- State of photography in 1851 -- Selecting photographs for the exhibition -- Exhibiting photographs and photographic equipment -- Photography, commercialism and contemporary illustration -- Reports by the juries -- Aftermath and legacy -- Photographs and photographic equipment exhibited -- Reports by the juries -- list of Class X and Class XXX jurors -- List of prize winners representing photography and relevant aspects of printing processes -- Reports by the juries -- catalogue of photographic illustrations -- Reports by the juries -- census of presentation copies -- Photoscience: behind the negatives and their printing / Nicholas Burnett