Glassman C. Hocus Focus: The World's Weirdest Cameras

Watts, 1976. — 104 p.In 1826 a wooden box sat on a windowsill in France. Eight hours later. Joseph Niepce removed a small pewter plate from the box and held the world's first photograph in his hand.Since then photography has grown by leaps and bounds in both sophistication and popularity. Hundreds of different cameras have been designed to take pictures of just about anything — from the inside of a stomach to an atomic explosion. Cameras have been made to look like shoes, shotguns, books, binoculars, matchboxes, and Mickey Mouse.Hocus Focus is a cheerful history of the wackiest and weirdest cameras developed in the last 150 years. It is profusely illustrated and offers many intercsiing insights into the mores and advertising methods of the times.