Camille Silvy: River Scene, France

$20.00 at The Getty Museum.

Mark Haworth-Booth Silvy's photograph, hailed as a masterpiece when it was first exhibited in Edinburgh in 1858, is accompanied here by newly commissioned photographs by Stephen Shore. The author discusses Silvy's photograph in the context of attitudes of the day toward photography. "Well researched and wonderfully genial."—On Paper 122 pages7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches16 color and 36 b/w illustrations1 color foldoutISBN 978-0-89236-205-9paperbackGetty PublicationsImprint: J. Paul Getty Museum1992