Delamotte, Philip H. The Crystal Palace. Photographs by Philip H. Delamotte, March 28-June 22, 1980. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus

It feels less like a cinematic travelogue and more like a series of formal encounters with the American spirit

University of Arizona

focusing instead on the "awful" (in the classical sense of inspiring awe) scale of the Pacific

and Christian iconography to explore eternal truths and systems of human knowledge

Delamotte, Philip H. The Crystal Palace. Photographs by Philip H. Delamotte, March 28-June 22, 1980. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Karl KrausInternational Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Essay by Janet E. Buerger. Wraps, 16 pages. [Catalog for exhibition of 62 prints from Delamotte's exceedingly rare portfolio of albumen prints, Photographic Reports of the Progress of the Works of the Crystal Palace and Gardens (1855). This catalog reproduces ten of the images, with an annotated list of all 62 and a list of 160 Photographic Reports of the Progress of the Works of the Crystal