Gustave Le Gray (1820-1882) was one of the most technically accomplished and aesthetically enlightened of the early "artist-photographers." Trained as a painter of portraits and landscapes, Le Gray was attracted in the 1840s to the artistic potential of photographic processes. As a photographer he evolved and refined much of photography's primary aesthetic theory. By 1855 he had influenced, if not taught, every important photographer in France. Drawing on entirely new material Eugenia Parry Janis fully analyzes the life and work of Le Gray and demonstrates the originality of his artistic achievement in the context of discoveries about his personal and professional history. Janis, approaching the photographs of Le Gray with the methods and sensibilities of an art historian, reveals telling connections between Le Gray's choices of subject matter and formal means of presentation and the existing pictorial practice of other media such as painting. This same approach makes her sensitive to Le Gray's departures from such traditional practice, and she skillfully illustrates how he evolved from student painter into master photographer. In doing so she gives us a glimpse of the way in which Le Gray's manipulation of the photographic process was always informed by his pictorial needs and by his developing style.

The Photography of Gustave Le Gray

Arts & Photography

Janis, Eugenia Parry

Individual Artists

University of Chicago Press

Nuclear Enchantment

Photography & Video

Univ of New Mexico Pr

<p>To see these photographs is to be in the presence of a master of constructed photo-dramas. Patrick Nagatani's tableaux are remarkably elaborate meditations about the landscape and the people of the state, as the photographer notes, "contains the most extensive nuclear-weapons research, management, training, and testing facilities and organizations in the United States.These large format photographs characterized by an intense, sulfuric color explore with profound wit and irony Negatani's deep understanding of nuclear fear in out time. Eugenia Parry Janis's lively and subjective essay informs with provocative insights into Nagatani's work and his magical obsessive personality and places him in a curtural context. This is an important book and one not to be missed.</p>

Art Inst of Chicago/University of Chicago

Wes Mills

Stanley B. Burns, MD

Twin Palms Publishers

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