Die Geburtsstunde der Fotografie
Subtitle: Meilensteine der Gernsheim-Collection = The birth of photography : highlights of the Gernsheim collection
By: herausgegeben von/edited by Alfried Wieczorek, Claude W. Sui ; [Katalogbeiträge: Barbara N. Brown, Sheila J. Foster, Stephanie Oeben, Shin Maekawa, Claude W. Sui ; Übersetzung der Katalogbeiträge: Emily Banwell, Kurt Rehkopf]
Contributors: Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen; Forum Internationale Photographie; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Gernsheim Collection
Series: Publikationen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen -- Bd. 52; Publikationen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen -- Bd. 52.
Publisher: Kehrer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9783868283303; 9783927774452
Subjects: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; Exhibitions; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Gernsheim Collection; Forum Internationale Photographie; Photograph collections; Artistic Photography; Forum Internationale Photographie. Helmut Gernsheim Archive
Other titles: Birth of photography :
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition organized by the Forum for International Photography at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim and the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, held at the Forum September 9, 2012 - January 6, 2013.

Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Parallel text in German and English.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by the editors / Alfried Wieczorek and Claude W. Sui; title: Foreword of the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin / Roy Flukinger; title: Photography in history / Irene Gernsheim; title: Helmut Gernsheim: Creative photography, aesthetic trends 1839-1960 / Claude W. Sui; title: An interview with Hans Hammarskiöld on Helmut Gernsheim / Claude W. Sui; title: Alison Gernsheim - photo historian and collector / Stephanie Oeben; title: The correspondence of Helmut Gernsheim and Beaumont Newhall / Sheila J. Foster; title: Some notes from the Harry Ransom Center and Getty Conservation Institute Collaborative Research of the first photography and a brief description of its oxygen-free museum case / Barbara N. Brown and Shin Maekawa; title: The world's first photograph - the View from the Window in Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce from 1826 / Stephanie Oeben.