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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 >.>.> The 253 works in the exhibition many of them rare or unique and all of exceptional print quality have been culled from the more than five thousand that comprise the legend- ary but seldom exhibited Gilman Paper Company Collec- tion the most important private collection of photographs in the world. Assembled over the past two decades the collec- tion is composed of images both ravishing and historically significant setting the standard of connoisseurship in the field and illuminating the aesthetics of the medium. The first three chapters cover the period from the birth of photography in 1839 through its early maturation in the 1860s in the locales where it first and most magnificently flourished in Victorian England and France of the Second Empire and on tours of the Mediterranean basin and beyond in India and Asia. Chapter Four examines photography in America during the nineteenth century and vividly charts the Civil War and the exploration of the majestic terrains of the Ameri can West. Investigations of the self and society are explored in Chapter Five in the psychologically penetrating portraits and dreamlike landscape studies of the fin de si?cle in Eu- rope and America. And in Chapter Six the modem era rushes into view with the provocative new vision of the twen tieth century. (OS)