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Six exposures : essays in celebration of the opening of the Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography.

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  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-146408

Description

vii, 134 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Photography, Artistic.

Contents

Who is the greatest of them all? Harrison D. Horblit, Harvard Class of 1933 : introduction / Roger E. Stoddard -- "What would I want with photography? I'm collecting history of science!" : recalling Harrison Horblit / Hans P. Kraus, Jr. -- "Splendid calotypes" : Henry Talbot, Amelia Guppy, Sir Thomas Phillipps, and photographs on paper / Larry J. Schaaf -- The regard of mundane miracles : the daguerreotype collection of Harrison D. Horblit / Grant B. Romer -- The Merriman album / John Szarkowski -- Roman views / Andrew Szegedy-Maszak -- "Gymnastics of the soul" : the clinical aesthetics of Duchenne de Boulogne / Robert Sobieszek.

Publication

[Boston, Mass.] : Houghton Library, Harvard University

Description

vii, 134 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes

Library and Archives purchase, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

0914630210

Call Number

Stacks TR651.S59 1999

Other People and Orgs

Horblit, Harrison D.

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