Author: Hargraves, Michael.
Title: Little Pictures. (Cover Title).
Description: [Los, Angeles, CA]: (The J. Paul Getty Museum), (1993). (1993). - Small quarto, softcover. A sheet of cream paper is folded 3 times, concertina-style, to form 8 pages, each 8-3/4 inches high by 8 inches wide. 8 pages, including 5 sepia-toned & color photographic illustrations. Fine. Catalog for an exhibition of the same title presented by the J. Paul Getty Museum from December 7th, 1993 to March 6th, 1994. In his essay, Michael Hargraves notes that after photography was invented in 1839, early examples of the art were never very large because of the limitations imposed by the size of camera lenses. Early commercial photography was often in the form of miniatures on cartes-de-visite or "calling cards". Fine .

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY; EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY; LITTLE PICTURES; MINIATURE PHOTOGRAPHS; ILLUSTRATED CATALOG; MICHAEL HARGRAVES; EXHIBITION; J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM; THE GETTY.


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