A World History of PhotographyA World History of Photography encompasses the entire range of the medium, from the camera lucida to the latest computer technology, and from Europe and the Americas to the Far East. It investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placing it in historical context. |
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Page 62
... included the substitution of a likeness for the name and address on a calling card - the traditional manner of introducing oneself among middle- and upper- class gentry - and the affixing of small portraits to licenses , passports ...
... included the substitution of a likeness for the name and address on a calling card - the traditional manner of introducing oneself among middle- and upper- class gentry - and the affixing of small portraits to licenses , passports ...
Page 110
... included still lifes and land- and cityscape stereographs . The success of illustration with photographic prints of any kind may be ascribed to their fidelity and cheapness and to the relative rapidity with which paper prints could be ...
... included still lifes and land- and cityscape stereographs . The success of illustration with photographic prints of any kind may be ascribed to their fidelity and cheapness and to the relative rapidity with which paper prints could be ...
Page 437
... included photographs by Europeans and Americans , the latter , selected by Steichen and Weston.23 Included were scientific works , publicity , advertising , and fashion photographs , collages , montages , light graphics , movie stills ...
... included photographs by Europeans and Americans , the latter , selected by Steichen and Weston.23 Included were scientific works , publicity , advertising , and fashion photographs , collages , montages , light graphics , movie stills ...
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19th century Adolphe Braun advertising aesthetic Albumen print Alfred Stieglitz amateur American artists Autochrome became began Berenice Abbott British calotype camera images Charles chemical Collection collodion color commercial Courtesy Daguerre Daguerre's daguerreotype David Octavius Hill depict documentary documentation Eadweard Muybridge early Edward Steichen England engravings Europe exhibition exposure expression film France French Gallery Gelatin silver print genre George Eastman House German Gernsheim glass graphic graphs gravure Henry included individual industrial interest International Museum invention John journals landscape lens light London magazines medium ment montage Museum of Photography Muybridge Nadar nature negative nude painters painting paper Paris Paul Strand Photographic Society Photography at George photojournalism photojournalistic pictorial Pictorialist plate portraits portraiture posed produced published raphers reproduced Roger Fenton scenes sensitivity social Steichen stereograph studio style suggest Talbot techniques themes tion tographers tonal United urban viewers views vision visual Weston William York