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100 1 $aHaworth-Booth, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81127684
245 10 $aPhotography: an independent art :$bphotographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996 /$cMark Haworth-Booth.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c1997.
300 $a208 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c30 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThis book tells the story of how the medium of photography was embraced by the V&A, a new kind of museum that concerned itself with the arts of everyday life and with a large popular audience. Henry Cole, founder of the V&A, began to collect photography as an art form in 1856 and hosted an international exhibition of photographs in 1858.
520 8 $aHe bought and exhibited the works of pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, whose letters to Cole are among the many illuminating documents published here for the first time.
520 8 $aThe V&A's Victorian holdings are outstanding, with major photographs by Roger Fenton, David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gustave Le Gray, Camille Silvy, and Lady Hawarden. In recent years, the museum has acquired significant works by such twentieth-century masters as Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, and Cecil Beaton.
610 20 $aVictoria and Albert Museum$vCatalogs.
650 0 $aPhotography$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109260
650 0 $aPhotograph collections$zEngland$zLondon.
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