Mark Haworth-Booth - Camille Silvy, River Scene, France

Getty Museum, Malibu, 1992. First edition. Softback.

Condition: Fine, almost like new.

ISBN: 0-89236-205-7

The subject of this book, which is the first to be devoted to a single photograph, is Camille Silvy's remarkable River Scene.Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first exhibited in France in 1859, the photograph is accompanied here by two newly commissioned colour photographs by Stephen Shore. In a provocative essay, Haworth-Booth discusses the history of the photograph in the context of attitudes of the day toward photography and photographic exhibitions, outlines the influences on Silvy, and examines his eventual influence on others.