Saturday, March 17, 2012

Steps Off the Beaten Path: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome and Its Environs / Sentieri smarriti e ritrovati: Roma e dintorni nelle fotografie del secondo Ottocento (English and Italian Edition)


By 1860, photography in Rome was undergoing dramatic change. The level of detail made possible by new glass wet plate and albumen techniques encouraged photographers to take a documentary approach, focusing on architectural fragments, transitional spaces like stairways, even citizens going blurrily about their daily business--in short, on everything but the city's oft-photographed basilicas and ruins. The candid, frequently off-balance images collected in this unique volume, by photographers such as Vincento Carlo, Domenico Baldessare Simelli, Eugene Gustave Chauffourier, A. de
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