The Gernsheim Collection Flukinger Nordström Haworth–booth Hardback

The Gernsheim CollectionAuthor(s): Roy Flukinger, Alison Nordstrm, Mark Haworth-Booth\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292723368, 978-0292723368\nSynopsis\nAlfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association, 2012\n\nThe Gernsheim Collection is one of the most important collections of photography in the world. Amassed by the renowned husband-and-wife team of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim between 1945 and 1963, it contains an unparalleled range of images, beginning with the world's earliest-known photograph from nature, made by Joseph Nicphore Nipce in 1826. The Gernsheim Collection includes some 35,000 major and representative photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; a research library of some 3,600 books, journals, and published articles; about 250 autographed letters and manuscripts; and more than 200 pieces of early photographic equipment. Its encyclopedic scope-as well as the exper.