A World History of Photography

• Author : Naomi Rosenblum
• Publisher : Abbeville Press
• Release Date : 2007
• Total pages : 712
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : Traces photographic history both topically and chronologically, profiles key masters, explains terms and processes, and features the landmarks in the development of photography....

• Author : Naomi Rosenblum
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1984
• Total pages : 671
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : A 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....

• Author : Margaret Vallencourt
• Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Release Date : 2015-07-15
• Total pages : 128
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : A valuable resource for budding photographers and fans of the visual medium alike, this volume traces the invention and early evolution and techniques of photography, from daguerreotypes to early attempts at color. The development of specific genres, such as portraiture, photojournalism, and fine art photography, is broken up with substantial ...

• Author : Tanya Sheehan
• Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
• Release Date : 2014-12-02
• Total pages : 264
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the medium, while shedding light on non-Western, vernacular, and "other" photographic practices outside the Euro-American canon. Photography, History, Difference brings together an international group of scholars to reflect on contemporary efforts to ...

• Author : Michael R. Peres
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2014-06-20
• Total pages : 320
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : Defining photography is impossible. Revealing it is another matter, and that's what The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography does, with each turn of the page. History: The technical origins and evolution of photography are half of the story. The other half consists of the ways that cultural forces have transformed ...

• Author : Michael R. Peres
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release Date : 2013-05-29
• Total pages : 880
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : *Searchable CD ROM containing the entire book (including images) *Over 450 color images, plus never before published images provided by the George Eastman House collection, as well as images from Ansel Adams, Howard Schatz, and Jerry Uelsmann to name just a few The role and value of the picture cannot be ...

• Author : PatriziaDi Bello
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-07-05
• Total pages : 194
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : This beautifully illustrated study recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Patrizia Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. The albums of ...

• Author : Liz Wells
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2021-07-09
• Total pages : 488
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : Now in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters ...

• Author : Erina Duganne,Heather Diack,Terri Weissman
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2020-06-30
• Total pages : 352
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : This innovative text recounts the history of photography through a series of thematically structured chapters. Designed and written for students studying photography and its history, each chapter approaches its subject by introducing a range of international, contemporary photographers and then contextualizing their work in historical terms. The book offers students ...

• Author : Stephen Bull
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2020-03-16
• Total pages : 568
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : "A Companion to Photography presents a contemporary approach to the subject, advancing the critical ideas that inform the study of photography in the 21st century. Features a collection of original, up-to-date essays relating to contemporary photography Introduces several new ideas that expand current photographic theory Combines essays by established and ...

• Author : Geoffrey Batchen
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release Date : 1999-03-15
• Total pages : 286
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. ...

• Author : Naomi Rosenblum
• Publisher : Abbeville Press
• Release Date : 2010
• Total pages : 432
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : The definitive text on women in photography, now in an affordable paperback edition....

• Author : Lynne Warren
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2005-11-15
• Total pages : 2042
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This ...

• Author : Dennis A. Trinkle,Scott A. Merriman
• Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
• Release Date : 2002
• Total pages : 501
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : CD-ROM contains: Electronic version of text (.pdf format) with links to resources in text....

• Author : Miles Orvell,Professor of English and American Studies Miles Orvell
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2003
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 9780789209375

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Summary : Presents an overview of the history of American photography, covering how American photographers view the world, the nature of photographic exploitation, experimental techniques, and the works of prominent photographers....