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Snapshot : painters and photography, Bonnard to Vuillard / edited by Elizabeth W. Easton ; with contributions by Clément Chéroux ... [et al.]. - New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2011. - xiii, 234 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Issued in connection with exhibitions held Oct. 14th 2011-8th Jan. 2012, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Feb. 4th-May 6 2012, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. June 8th-Sept. 2nd 2012, Indianapolis Museum of Art. Published in association with Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Includes index.

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 & many began experimenting with the camera as a means of capturing images as studies for final works & of observing the world & the people in it.

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Painters as photographers--France--Exhibitions.
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