{"product_id":"albrecht-klaus-schroder-the-eye-and-the-camera-the-albertina-collection-of-photographs-9782020592376","title":"The eye and the camera : the Albertina collection of photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003eDefining the status of photography by reference to more than just the classical bias between\n art and document and acknowledging that \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c\/i\u003e the eye and the camera are involved\n in the production of images in an exciting and multi-faceted interactive play are the objectives\n of this first publication of the photographic collection of the Albertina, whose eminent tradition\n in collecting drawings and prints has now been extended to encompass objects created\n by the new technical medium of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesign and chance as constitutive elements of any collection are part of the collective memory\n which in these archives will serve posterity. The holdings of the Albertina's photographic\n collection tell mutually complementary as well as diverging stories about the medium of\n photography. The different aspects under which photographic material has been collected are as\n exciting as the pictures themselves: an imperial art collection and the library connected with it,\n pictures owned by an industrial school founded in the late 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century\n (the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt) with treasures acquired by its famous teachers,\n among them Rudolf Koppitz, and the archives of the first publishing house\n in the German-speaking world specializing in photography books can be regarded as exemplary\n for many different points of reference to which photography can (and must) be related.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early days of the medium are presented by descriptions of collection strategies, which\n include Henry William Fox Talbot's \u003ci\u003ePencil of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e as well as previously unknown experiments.\n The policy underlying the first photographic exhibition in the German-speaking world\n is explored, which attempted to provide an overview of everything that was considered\n of importance in this field in 1864, from Édouard Baldus to Carleton Watkins, from still lifes\n to expedition photography. Stereo pictures and panoramas address photography as a vehicle\n of a radically novel perception and representation of space. X-ray and astro-photography,\n surveying pictures of glaciers and snapshots of flying bullets: all this passed through the hands\n of Josef Maria Eder, whose key role in the exchange of scientific photographs in the late\n 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century has hardly been recognized to date. The fact that, in addition, classical themes\n such as 'Posed Photography' or 'Instantaneous Photography' can be illustrated using pictures\n by photographers from Julia Margaret Cameron to Robert Frank, from Heinrich Kühn\n to Lisette Model, has been rendered possible by the numerous acquisitions made in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SEUIL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53897093644630,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9782020592376_1.jpg?v=1781872452","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/albrecht-klaus-schroder-the-eye-and-the-camera-the-albertina-collection-of-photographs-9782020592376","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}