Snapshot : painters and photography, Bonnard to Vuillard /
edited by Elizabeth W. Easton ; with contributions by Clément Chéroux ... [et al.].
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2011.
- xiii, 234 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the following institutions: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam October 14, 2011 - January 8, 2012, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. February 4 - May 6, 2012, Indianapolis Museum of Art June 8 - September 2, 2012. Published in association with Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Includes index.
The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible to amateurs as well as to professionals. Artists were not immune to its allure & many began experimenting with the camera as a means of capturing images as studies for final works & of observing the world & the people in it.
Photography--History--France--19th century--Exhibitions. Art and photography--Exhibitions. Painters as photographers--France--Exhibitions. Photography.