Gustave Le Gray, Carleton E. Watkins: Pioneers of Landscape Photography: Photographs from the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Frankfurt am Main and Malibu, CA: Stadtische Galerie im Sta delschen Kunstinstitut; J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993. Pictorial boards, 128 pages, illustrations; 23 x 28 cm. Text in English and German. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Sta dtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, Graphische Sammlung, September 2 to November 7, 1993. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Published to coincide with an exhibition of the Getty Museum's LeGray and Watkins photographs at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt, this book presents thirty-two full-page duotone illustrations of early masterpieces of landscape photography. LeGray's seascapes and other works from the mid-nineteenth century are complemented by Watkin's views of the American West. In addition to the catalog entries, biographies, and bibliography, there are essays by the authors on 'LeGray, Watkins, and the Esthetic of Perception', 'Between the Barbizon School and the Beginnings of Impressionism,' and 'American Landscape: Geology and the Sacred, Commerce and Manifest Destiny.'" - Publisher. CONTENTS: Photographic panoramas, by Weston J. Naef; Gustave Le Gray, Carleton E. Watkins and the esthetic of perception, by Weston J. Naef; Between the Barbizon school and the beginnings of Impressionism : the landscape photography of Gustave Le Gray, by Margaret Stuffmann; American landscape : geology and the sacred, commerce and Manifest Destiny, by Martin Christadler.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong. Collectible.