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Photographs by Camille Silvy. Edited by Mark Haworth-Booth.
The Getty Museum, 2010. 160 pp., 113 color illustrations, 8x10"
The French photographer Camille Silvy (1834-1910) was one of the most original artists of his time. More than any other nineteenth-century photographer, Silvy exemplifies Charles Baudelaire's idea of the artist as an interpreter of modern life. This book explores Silvy's innovative efforts to master industrial-scale portrait production alongside fine-art photography in his popular London studio. Presenting sitters in modern dress was a new phenomenon and Silvy was a pioneer in the creation of the carte-de-visite (a photographic visiting card).
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