The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum Women and Paul Philippot

and Paul Philippot

This edition includes a new translation of the original text

Ian Jenkins and Victoria Turner

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are now so popular that it is difficult to realize how they were originally greeted with ridicule and incomprehension

The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum Women and Paul PhilippotPaul Martineau With an essay by Eugenia Parry and an introduction by Weston Naef Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. (19211987) amassed an extraordinary collection of 26,000 photographs between 1973 and 1984, recognizing that photography was an undervalued art form on which he might have a profound impact as a collector. He was mainly attracted to photographs that stimulated his imagination, and his taste ran toward the idiosyncraticimages that surprised him