Photography: History of Photography

The first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner.

In addition to a wide range of technical information, the book encapsulates in concise and readily accessible form the mass of recent scholarship on photography as a social and artistic practice, organized both thematically and geographically.

Offers a guide to the medium's visual language through works by such early masters as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Strand and Weston.

A comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865, enriched by some 250 illustrations.

Provides brief biographical sketches for nearly seventy African-American photographers active during the first century of photography.

A visual testimony of the black community through the photographer as witness, documenter, artist and recorder.

Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies.

A gathering of a group of intellectually stimulating and provocative essays that present the emergence, both tentative and triumphant, of this new global icon and her increasingly multicultural image.

Organized chronologically and alphabetically.

Discusses the history of the first practical color photographic process, shows examples, and explains the process.

Explores every aspect of photography -- the newest inventions, revolutionary past, ever-changing technical and aesthetic developments, and the personal stories and styles of photographers worldwide.

Catalog of an exhibition organized by the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and also shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Combines a history of the development of photography with guidelines for mastering the photographic print processes which the great nineteenthand twentieth-century pioneers of photography themselves employed.