An unannotated bibliography of 11,209 books on photography since 1914, grouped under 3,000 alphabetically arranged headings. Entries include author, editor, contributors, title, place and year of publication, publisher, and number of pages and illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A compact, readable, up-to-date overview of the history of photography.
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...
Traces the evolution of photography and offers vivid illustrations of technical innovations in this visual form of communication.
"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...
Helmut Gernsheim. Of what use are lens and light To those who lack in mind and sight ? TRANSLATION OF LATIN INSCRIPTION ON A BRUNSWICK THALER IN 1589 Of what use are lens and light To those who.
Through a selection of fifty landmark cameras, Michael Pritchard tells the story of this ground-breaking piece of equipment that changed the way we saw the world around us.
This volume shows in chronological order the most impressive images and the most important developments in the art of light that is photography.
The History of Photography, from 1839 to the Present Day
Edited by Miche Frizot (researcher at the Centre National de la Rechereche Scientifique in Paris) and published on the initiative of the Arts Council of the Centre National du Livre,...
Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments.