Word: incunabular
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...strictest sense, Canaday was not far wrong. The best contemporary photographers generally have less respect for their subjects than for the photographs that arise from them. Few have been able to produce work of the purity and absoluteness one sees in much of the innocent, incunabular sort of photography of the mid-19th century, in the Civil War photographs of Matthew Brady and his colleagues, or in Eugene Atget's pictures of Paris streets at the turn of the century. Meyerowitz's work, which ranked on the "windows" side of the New York show, has a kind of emphatic resplendence...
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