Cover
Title Page
Contents Page
Foreword
Introduction
Chronology
Hippolyte Bayard, Inventor
A Paper Bridge: Hippolyte Bayard’s Cross-Channel Exchanges
Hippolyte Bayard and the Institution of Photography: The Construction of a Photographic Reputation
Hippolyte Bayard, an Eternal Rediscovery: The Historical Fortunes of an “Unknown” Photographer in the Twentieth Century
Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Hippolyte Bayard: A Photo Essay and a Conversation
Plates
Early Photographs
Comparing Hippolyte Bayard’s First Photographic Processes at the Académie des sciences with Those at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Le Noyé [The Drowned Man]
The Getty Album
Photograms
Early Art Reproduction
In Bayard’s Studio
Gardens and Flowers
Bayard’s Garden
Portraits and Garden Scenes
The Self-Portrait and the Substitution Principle
Bayard’s Portraits
Light Sensitivity Evaluation of Bayard’s Salted-Paper Prints in the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection
Paris Monuments, Construction, and Architecture
Under the Paris Sky: Bayard and Clouds
Photographing Hittorff’s New Circus for the Champs-Élysées
Jean-Auguste Barre’s Fountain of the Four Seasons and the West Wing of the Restaurant Guillemin
Bayard and the British
The Outskirts of Paris: Batignolles and Montmartre
Construction Worker, Paris
After the Album
Later Art Reproductions and Publications
Studio Portraits and Later Self-Portraits
Hippolyte Bayard’s Recipes: Submissions to the Académie des sciences, 1839–51
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Copyright Page
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