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

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

Edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Scott Wilcox

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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inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre—this beautifully illustrated book features many previously unpublished images alongside the work of well-known photographers.

The sixteen essays in this volume explore photography as a vehicle for visual translation and cultural exchange. Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art

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