The picture history of photography : from the earliest beginnings to the present day.
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New York :
H.N. Abrams,
[1969]
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| Edition: | Revised and enlarged edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The beginnings of photography
- The long road to photography
- Niepce: the world's first photographer
- Daguerre and the daguerrotype
- The daguerreotype in Europe
- The daguerreotype in America
- Masters of the nineteenth century
- Negatives and positives
- Fox Talbot
- Hill and Adamson: the great collaboration
- Early wet-plate photography
- Hesler: Chicago pioneer
- The stereoscope: pictures in pairs
- Nadar: "the Titian of photography"
- The ubiquitous carte de visite
- Julia Margaret Cameron: portraits out of focus
- Rejlander, Robinson, and "art" photography
- Brady: cameraman of the Civil War
- Pioneers of the west
- Muybridge and Eakins: photography of motion
- Footlights, skylights, and tintypes
- The "detective" camera and the Kodak
- Masters of the modern era
- Photography comes of age
- Stieglitz: an American legend
- Steichen: painter, photographer, curator
- Lartigue: boy photographer of La Belle Epoque
- Atget and the streets of Paris
- Riis and Hine: social idealists with the camera
- Genthe: celebrities and anonymous throngs
- Edward West: a new vision
- Lensless photography
- Roy Stryker: documentaries for government and industry
- Ansel Adams: interpreter of nature
- Masters of the miniature camera: Salomon and Eisenstaedt
- Margaret Bourke-White: roving recorder
- Color: another dimension
- Exploring the new horizon
- Extending the range of human vision
- Photography for science
- Photography today
- Postwar trends
- Doisneau: humorist with a camera
- David Douglas Duncan: lensman of the Marines
- Brassai's probing vision
- Callahan and Siskind: the magic of the commonplace
- Van der Elsken: storyteller in photographs
- Cartier-Bresson and the human comedy
- Yousuf Karsh: faces of destiny
- Andreas Feininger
- Robert Capa: men in combat
- Eugene Smith
- "Chim"
- David Seymour
- William Garnett: the world from upper air
- Bill Brandt
- Arnold Newman
- Todd Webb
- Lucien Clergue
- Gordon Parks
- Lennart Olson
- Bruce Davidson.