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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Ever since their creation in nineteenth-century France Adolphe Braun’s photographic images have been uniformly praised for their beauty. Trained as a textile designer Braun initially used the nascent technology of photography to produce a marvelous and thoughtfully presented herbarium providing designers and art students with a source book of natural models. Having established his reputation as a top- ranking photographer he went on to document everything from French landscape and architecture traditional regional costume animal breeds and husbandry to the events and legacies of the Franco-Prussian War. His opulent bouquets of flowers are at once lush delicate. and richly tonal; his landscapes are breathtaking and immediate; his animal studies arresting; his war photos dramatic and unrelenting. He created thousands of visual souvenirs of pristine Alpine sites and stereoscopic views of popular holiday locations throughout Europe and would ultimately become one of the first to reproduce works of art photographically for a mass audience. Seeking to identify popular uses for photography applying it to both the fine arts and industry. Braun’s work was and still is synonymous with superb technical and artistic resolution. Through Braun’s pioneering photographs Image and Enterprise explores the origins of contemporary visual communication – tracing the evolution of photographic technology as a means of disseminating visual information to a broader public. Six enlightening essays provide an overview of Braun’s photographic enterprise his experiment (MP)