Paris. Galerie Baudoin Lebon. LOUIS ROBERT (1810-1882). L'Alchimie des Images. 147 pp., including roughly 100 monochrome photographs. 4to, wraps. 1999.
This bilingual catalogue (text in French and English) presents nearly 100 photographs taken by Robert between 1848 and 1855. He was a notable innovator (he experimented with many kinds of paper and printed his negatives, which are shown here opposite the photographs) and his images eloquently capture vistas of his 19th-century world.