The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 1999: Inventing a New Art: Early Photographs from the Rubel Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Daniel, Malcolm; Philippe de Montebello - 1999

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Paperback. First edition. Very Good+ paperback with light touches of rubbing at the extremities and light dimples to the back cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 1999, (Vol. LVI, No. 4/Vol. 56, No. 4) devoted entirely to "Inventing a New Art: Early Photographs from the Rubel Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Includes essays on: William Henry Fox Talbot and his Circle; Calotypes by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson; The Art of Roger Fenton; Portraits by Julia Margaret Cameron; and The Daguerreotype in Europe and America. Also features a illustrated and annotated section of 41 additional works from the collection. Published in conjunction with a 1999 exhibition that "tells the fascinating tale of photography's beginnings and maturity in mid-nineteenth-century Britain as revealed by masterpieces from the Rubel Collection." Text by Malcolm Daniel; preface by Philippe de Montebello. Staple-bound, card wraps; 56 pages; color and b&w photos throughout; 8.5 x 11 inches. Bibliography.