Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital

Todd Gustavson

Sterling Innovation, 2009 - Photography - 360 pages

Cameras, and what they capture, forever changed our perception of the world, and of ourselves. Few inventions have had the impact of this ingenious, elegant, and deceptively simple device.

This gorgeous cornerstone volume, created in collaboration with the world-famous George Eastman House, celebrates the camera and the art of the photograph. It spans almost two hundred years of progress, from the first faint image ever caught to the instantaneous pictures snapped by today’s state-of-the-art digital equipment.

The informative narrative by Todd Gustavson traces the camera’s development, the lives of its brilliant but often eccentric inventors, and the artists behind the lens. Images and highly descriptive captions for more than 350 cameras from the George Eastman House Collection, plus more than 100 historic photos, ads, and drawings, complement the text.

A foreword by the George Eastman House Director Anthony Bannon, and insightful essays by Steve Sasson, inventor of the digital camera, and Alexis Gerard, visionary founder and president of Future Image Inc., completes this illuminating study of one of the greatest modern technological achievements.

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I love this book to use it as a study guide to learn about photography..!
The whole book sums up all the details of the history of photography.

Contents

• ii: 25
• iv: 51
• Photography and Fame: 73

About the author

Todd Gustavson is Curator of Technology at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. He is responsible for the cataloging, storage, and maintenance of one of the world's largest collections of photographic and cinematic equipment, containing more than 20,000 artifacts. He has curated or co-curated ten exhibitions for the museum, including the critically acclaimed traveling exhibition The Brownie at 100.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital
• Author: Todd Gustavson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sterling Innovation, 2009
• ISBN: 1402756569, 9781402756566
• Length: 360 pages
• Subjects: Photography / Criticism; Photography / History