MONUMENTAL JOURNEY/ DAGUERREOTYPES OF GIRAULT DE PRANGEY

In 1842, the pioneering French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (18041892) set out eastward across the Mediterranea n with a custom-built camera to explore ancient lands that were largely unknown to the Western world. This book is the first to full y consider the hundreds of daguerreotypes that resulted from his three-year journey, many of which were made using innovative techni ques that fascinate photographers to this day. The images, including the first-known photographic documentation of significant locat ions, off...[Llegir més]