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Daumier, Honore
French (1808-1879)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Nadar elevant la Photographie a la hauteur de l'Art
PUBLISHED TITLE: Nadar raising photography to the height of art

May 25, 1862
lithograph
36.5 x 29.9 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 20032
82:2383:0001

OLD GEH NUMBERS: 4-1 175
NON-GEH NUMBERS: 367 / 17, 1

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Freund, Gisele. --La Photographie en France au Dix-Neuvieme Siecle.-- Paris: A. Monnier, 1936.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. p. 116.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 332.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "A Touch of Whimsy: Fanicful Decoration and the Camera as a Toy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - South Gallery, December 14, 1990 - May 5, 1991.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed in image) "Souvenirs d'Artistes" "367" "Nadar elevant la Photographie a la hauteur de l'Art" (in pencil) "17" "1" verso-(rubber stamp) "Eastman Historical Photographic Collection" (in pencil) "Hazard" (illeg) "243" "Vol. 28, 3248" "`Boulevard'"" "May 25, 1862" (rubber stamp) "Cromer Collection" (in pencil) "4-1"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/90, MMC.

SUBJECTS:
personage, photographer / Nadar
transportation, hot air balloon
artifact, camera

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