The Photographers' History of Photography
NEW TO PHOTO HISTORIES on May 1st 2013
The history men: Helmut Gernsheim and Nicéphore Niépce
Born one hundred and fifty years apart the achievements of the struggling landowner and inventor Nicéphore Niépce and the groundbreaking photo historian Helmut Gernsheim were inextricably linked when Gernsheim rediscovered Niépce’s long-lost first photograph in a trunk. Graham Harrison looks at the exploits of the photographer turned historian and of the brilliant, but ill-fated, Frenchman who Gernsheim proved was the true inventor of photography.
PHOTO BOOKS
Fox Talbot’s The Art of Photogenic Drawing, Brassaï‘s nocturnal classic Paris de Nuit and the Becher’s definitive Anonymous Sculptures.
