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La photographie: ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations
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Lille: D. Danel, 1869
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Originally published in 1869 in a scholarly journal of Lille. By 1870 there were a total of three distinct editions. “A second quarto edition appeared in a print run of fifty numbered copies in 1870. The text was reset, remaining unaltered save for a postscript on carbon printing. These were presentation copies, which the author distributed to his colleagues in the photographic community...In keeping with the prestige of Blanquart-Evrard’s project these presentation copies are more richly illustrated than the other two editions. The most spectacular inclusion is a copy of Nicéphore Niépce’s Cardinal d’Amboise, direct from the original plate, a true incunabulum of photographic printing. Initially a copper engraving published in 1634, the printed image was rendered transparent by Niépce and copied onto a light-sensitive pewter plate in 1826...Its significance as a peerless relic from the proto-history of photography would not have been lost on the recipients of Blanquart-Evrard’s work.” S. Joseph in Imagining Paradise. Joseph further states that the plates differ from copy to copy and the number differ as well; he says the standard collation would be a minimum of twenty plates including the Niépce plate and at least three from Blanquart-Evrard’s establishment. La photographie sur plaque; La photographie sur papier; Epreuves au charbon; Céramique, vitraux-emaux; and Reproduction des couleurs par la lumiere. The book is given a good analysis by I. Jammes, Blanquart-Evrard et les origines de l’edition photographique Francaise, pp. 119-122. If the qualifier “the Gutenberg of photography” that certain authors have sometimes applied to Blanquart-Evrard seems exaggerated, one must remember that he has earned the merit of being the first to understand the immense future of photographic illustration and to have made this idea become a reality. (Charles Wood, cat. 164)
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