The History of Photography

The History of Photography
Author: Alma Davenport
Publsiher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826320767

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A compact, readable, up-to-date overview of the history of photography.

Camera

Camera
Author: Todd Gustavson
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2009
Genre: Photography
ISBN: STANFORD:36105124109617

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"Few inventions have had as powerful an influence as the camera, and few modes of expression have enjoyed the enduring artistic, scientific, and popular appeal of photography. We are so focused on the products of the camera, the indelible images marking our lives and times, that it's easy to forget the instrument itself has a history. Now that history has been comprehensively traced for photography buffs and amateurs alike by Todd Gustavson, Curator of Technology at George Eastman House. In this ... volume, hundreds of new and archival images from George Eastman House bring the story to life and provide an unmatched reference source. Vast in its scope, this ... book is an in-depth visual and narrative look at the camera, and consequently photography itself"--Jacket.

A History of Photography in 50 Cameras

A History of Photography in 50 Cameras
Author: Michael Pritchard
Publsiher: Firefly Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0228103630

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A History of Photography in 50 Cameras explores the 180-year story of perhaps the most widely used device ever built. It covers cameras in all forms, revealing the origins and development of each model and tracing the stories of the photographers who used and popularized them. Illustrated throughout with studio shots of all fifty cameras and a selection of iconic photographs made using them, it is the perfect companion guide for camera and photography enthusiasts alike. The cameras include: The Nikon F, the "hockey puck" that saved photographer Don McCullin's life when it stopped a sniper's bullet during the Vietnam War. Its indestructibility, reliability and interchangeable lenses made it a favored workhorse of photojournalists. The Leica M3-D was also favored by war photographers, including David Duncan Douglas, who used the camera during his coverage of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. In 2012, one of his four customized Leica cameras sold at auction for nearly $2 million. A Speed Graphic was used to take Sam Shere's widely published photograph of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, "the world's most famous news photograph ever taken." With few shots left and no time to get the camera to his eye, he shot his Pulitzer Prize-winning image "literally from the hip. It was over so fast there was nothing else to do." The camera phone has transformed picture-taking technology most profoundly since the invention of cameras. The "selfie" has become a new genre of photography practiced by everyone, and shared globally. This is an ideal book for camera collectors as well as anyone researching the history and art of photography.

History of Photography

History of Photography
Author: Peter Turner
Publsiher: Bookthrift
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1987
Genre: PHOTOGRAPHY--HISTORY.
ISBN: UOM:39015013883775

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From the photographic negative and the copper plate Daguerrotype to Kodak and roll film, photojournalism, cubism and on, photography is a science and an art.

The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day

The History of Photography  from 1839 to the Present Day
Author: Beaumont Newhall,Museum of Modern Art (Nova York, Nova York)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2006
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0870703811

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Negative Positive

Negative Positive
Author: Geoffrey Batchen
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781000224764

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As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored, and uses this to tell a representative, rather than comprehensive, history of the medium. The fact that a photograph is split between negative and positive manifestations means that its identity is always simultaneously divided and multiplied. The interaction of these two components was often spread out over time and space and could involve more than one person, giving photography the capacity to produce multiple copies of a given image and for that image to have many different looks, sizes and makers. This book traces these complications for canonical images by such figures as William Henry Fox Talbot, Kusakabe Kimbei, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Seydou Keïta, Richard Avedon, and Andreas Gursky. But it also considers a number of related issues crucial to any understanding of photography, from the business practices of professional photographers to the repetition of pose and setting that is so central to certain familiar photographic genres. Ranging from the daguerreotype to the digital image, the end result is a kind of little history of photography, partial and episodic, but no less significant a rendition of the photographic experience for being so. This book represents a summation of Batchen’s work to date, making it be essential reading for students and scholars of photography and for all those interested in the history of the medium

An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Various Processes of the Daguerr otype and the Diorama

An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Various Processes of the Daguerr  otype and the Diorama
Author: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1839
Genre: Daguerreotype
ISBN: OSU:32435011769130

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A History of Photography

A History of Photography
Author: William Johnson,Mark Rice,Carla Williams,Therese Mulligan,David Wooters
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 3836540991

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This volume shows in chronological order the most impressive images and the most important developments in the art of light that is photography. It offers in its huge collection and themes a unique survey of the medium from its origins until now.