It was also a costly endeavor, especially if a photographer wished to create multiple copies of a book. According to Kathrin Schönegg, a GRI fellow working on the project, most books had between just 20 to a few hundred editions — making some copies incredibly rare.
At Hyperallergic, Claire Voon takes a look at the brief history of photography incunabula, a rare form of book illustration.
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