The Cromer collection of nineteenth-century French photography
George Eastman Museum (Author), Sylvie Aubenas (Contributor), Éléonore Challine (Contributor), Ellen Handy (Contributor), Jacob W. Lewis (Contributor), Anne de Mondenard (Contributor), Heather A. Shannon (Contributor)
"In the early 20th century, Parisian photographer, amateur historian, and collector Gabriel Cromer (1873-1934) amassed a vast collection that traced photography's prehistory, invention, and subsequent development to about 1890. His dream was to found a national museum of the photographic arts in France. Although Cromer's ambition was never realized, his collection was central to the establishment of the world's first museum dedicated to photography: the George Eastman Museum. The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography considers the origin and circulation of the collection as well as the influence it has had on photography as a field of study. The book's six essays, written by French and American scholars, explore the Cromer Collection's complex passage across markets, borders, and functions. For more than half a century, curators and scholars worldwide have drawn extensively on the Gabriel Cromer Collection for exhibitions and publications; this book provides the first focused scholarly study of the foundational resource"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2022
George Eastman Museum ; Yale University Press, Rochester, NY, New Haven, CT, 2022