Photography, an independent art : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1839-1996 /
In providing a comprehensive introduction to this particular collection, the author also provides "a general history of photography from its beginnings as a scientific curiosity, through its international commercialization, to its coming of age as an art form in its own right."--Jacket
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V & A Publications,
1997
London : 1997 |
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Table of Contents:
- The new art
- A vibrant populist enterprise
- All the world under the subjugation of art
- A fine art and a manufacturing art
- The cosmopolitan archive
- Being contemporary
- The national collection of the art of photography
- Fond wrestlers with photography