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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 87
Page 125
... Commercial view - making by native photographers be- gan very slowly , but in 1859 a studio was opened in Hong Kong by Afong Lai , who was to remain preeminent in this area throughout the remainder of the century . Highly regarded by ...
... Commercial view - making by native photographers be- gan very slowly , but in 1859 a studio was opened in Hong Kong by Afong Lai , who was to remain preeminent in this area throughout the remainder of the century . Highly regarded by ...
Page 143
... commercial photography - portraiture , techni- cal illustration , reproductions of artwork - and indulge his high standards through the generosity of a patron , the Comte de Briges . However , as the medium itself became more ...
... commercial photography - portraiture , techni- cal illustration , reproductions of artwork - and indulge his high standards through the generosity of a patron , the Comte de Briges . However , as the medium itself became more ...
Page 275
... commercial exploitation than the discovery of how to make images in color . This search , which had begun with the daguerreotype , entailed much dead - end experimentation before a practicable if temporary solution was found in the ...
... commercial exploitation than the discovery of how to make images in color . This search , which had begun with the daguerreotype , entailed much dead - end experimentation before a practicable if temporary solution was found in the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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