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The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900

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The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900 - Pelizzari, Maria Antonella (Editor), and Wilcox, Scott (Editor)
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A unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographers This book examines the ways in which the new medium of photography influenced the British experience, appreciation, and perception of Italy in the nineteenth century. Setting photography within a long history of image making-beginning with the eighteenth-century Grand Tour and transformed by the inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre-this beautifully illustrated book features many ...

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The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900 2022, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

ISBN-13: 9780300263831

Hardcover