The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography

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The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography offers a profound exploration of Gabriel Cromer’s early twentieth-century collection, which includes French photographs, equipment, and ephemera from the 1800s. The book details Cromer’s vision to establish a national museum of photographic arts in France and highlights how his collection became the cornerstone of the George Eastman Museum, the world's first museum dedicated to photography. Featuring six essays by French and American scholars, it examines the collection's origins, international circulation, and its lasting influence on photographic scholarship.
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This volume is ideal for art historians, photography scholars, museum professionals, and readers interested in nineteenth-century French photography and the origins of photographic museums.

A deep dive into the pioneering collection of nineteenth-century French photographs, equipment, and ephemera, which is a cornerstone of the George Eastman Museum

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A deep dive into the pioneering collection of nineteenth-century French photographs, equipment, and ephemera, which is a cornerstone of the George Eastman Museum

In the early twentieth century, Parisian photographer, amateur historian, and collector Gabriel Cromer (1873–1934) amassed a collection that traced photography’s prehistory, invention, and development to about 1890. His dream was to found a national museum of the photographic arts in France. Although Cromer’s ambition was never realised, his collection was central to establishing the world’s first museum dedicated to photography: the George Eastman Museum.

The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth‑Century French Photography considers the origin and circulation of the collection as well as the influence it has had on photography as a field of study. The book’s six essays, written by French and American scholars, explore the Cromer Collection’s complex passage across markets, borders, and functions.

For more than half a century, curators and scholars worldwide have drawn extensively on the Gabriel Cromer Collection for exhibitions and publications; this book provides the first focused scholarly study of the foundational resource.

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“A sumptuously illustrated hard-cover tome of such import that it seems long overdue. It illuminates the ways in which Cromer’s personal vision has shaped our studies of 19th-century photography in both France and the United States, with contributions from six scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.”—The Classic

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300264272

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 April 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 272 color illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Ellen Handy
Contributions by Sylvie Aubenas
Contributions by Eleonore Challine
Contributions by Jacob Lewis
Contributions by Anne de Mondenard
Contributions by Heather A. Shannon

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 238.0mm

Height: 292.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 328

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Sylvie Aubenas is chief curator of the Department of Prints and Photographs at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.