Image and Enterprise: The Photography of Adolphe Braun

by Deborah Bright, Christian Kempf, Susan Hay, et al.

A collection of photographs from the 19th-century French photographer Adolphe Braun. They document everything from French landscape, architecture and traditional costume, to animals and husbandry, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500542325
• ISBN13: 9780500542323
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Adolphe Braun publisher of stereographs

Adolphe Braun was one of the biggest French publishers of photographs. The book gives a very good overview of the various activities of this important photographer, who started a publishing business. Adolphe Braun published many stereographs. The text does not pay much attention to Adolphe Braun and this popular Victorian invention. Not all information is new. Anne MacAuley mentioned the use of photography in textile and wall paper design by Braun in her book "Industrial Madness". Gisele Freund described the art reproductions bij Braun in her book "Photography and society". The design of the book is excellent