In choosing the 147 works reproduced in this volume, Paul Martineau selected masterpieces as well as images from obscure sources: daguerreotypes, cartes-de-visite, and stereographs, plus mug shots, medical photographs, and works by unknown makers. He was mainly attracted to photographs that stimulated his imagination, and his taste ran toward the idiosyncratic-images that surprised him chiefly because he had never seen them before. (1921–1987) amassed an extraordinary collection of 26,000 photographs between 19, recognizing that photography was an undervalued art form on which he might have a profound impact as a collector. The Thrill of the Chase Book Description :
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