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Aaron Scharf

I Art and Photography

This book is an authoritative and stimulating Illustrated with over 250 black-and-white
account of the relationship between art and photographs, this book is _bound to be a standard
photography, from the innovations of Daguerre, work for many years to come, essential reading
Fox Talbot and Niepce to the present day. The for painter and photographer and for students
author shows how nervously the Yictorian of both media. But it is so well conceived and
academy reacted to the new medium and how so clearly written that anyone struck by the
naturally men like Delacroix, Degas and Manet excitement of the recent history of visual
made use of it. Among other things, the book perception and expression will find it rewarding.
considers David Octavius Hill, Fenton and Brady, 105s net
the photographers of the Crimean and the
American Civil wars, Corot, Ruskin, the
Pr,e-Raphaelites' use of photography, Courbet,
Impressionism, Nadar, the influence of Japanese Allen Lane ill
prints, Muybridge, Marey, Alvin Langdon The
. Coburn, Picasso, Duchamp, John Heartfield,
Max Ernst and Moholy-Nagy. Penguin Press