Snapshot
Subtitle: painter/photographers from Bonnard to Vuillard
By: edited by Elizabeth Easton ; wWith contributions by Clément Chéroux ... [et al.].
Contributors: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Phillips Collection; Indianapolis Museum of Art
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780300172362; 9789079310289
Subjects: History; Exhibitions; ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General; Photography; ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); Art and photography; PHOTOGRAPHY / History
Description: "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, and many began experimenting with the camera as a means of capturing images as studies for final works and of observing the world and the people in it. Snapshot investigates seven Post-Impressionist painters and printmakers: Pierre Bonnard, George Hendrik Breitner, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Rivière, Félix Vallotton, and Edouard Vuillard. Although celebrated for their works on canvas and paper, these artists also made many personal and informal snapshots. Depicting interiors, city streets, nudes, and portraits, these photographs were kept private and never exhibited. As a result, most have never been published.  Juxtaposing personal photographs with the related paintings and prints by these Post-Impressionist artists, Snapshot offers a new perspective on early photography and on the synthesis of painting and photography at the end of the 19th century"--
Notes: Issued in connection with exhibitions held October 14, 2011-January 8, 2012, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, February 4-May 6, 2012, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and June 8-September 2, 2012, Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Includes bibliographical references and index.