Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Good (DJ and boards are lightly edgeworn/bumped/scuffed; interior is clean; binding is solid.). Sepia-photo-illustrated DJ with white lettering; light brown boards with black lettering on the side; xiii, 234 pp.; richly illustrated. "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"-- DJ.