Editors of LIFE Magazine, 2003. — 176 p. — ISBN: 1931933847. A celebration of the power of photography offers a stunning portfolio of one hundred of the most important and vivid still images of all time, including Robert Capa's images from the beaches of Normandy, Joe Rosenthal's famed study of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, and works by Harry Benson, Eddie Ad. PS.Not the best...
The Scovill & Adams, 1896. — 116 p. The writer published a series of articles on instantaneous photography in Photographic Work some short time ago, and these have been re-cast and added to in the present volume, to form the second of the series of Photographic Primers. He trusts that in the pages which follow, the fruits and the results of much experimental work will prove of...
Scanrus, 2013. — 338 p. Russia as I see her is a book covering 50 years of life. It is about the Soviet Union, Russia and the transition period between one state and the other. Its author, photo reporter Yuri Abramochkin, worked for APN, one of the largest news agencies in the world. He has travelled around Russia and the world. Everything in this book is fascinating: the photo...
Museum of Fine Arts, 1974. — 104 p. The title "Private Realities" was chosen to indicate that, although all of the works in this exhibition make use of objective camera realism, they are primarily concerned with the recording of subjective states of feeling. These works are not so much documentary as surreal, fantastic, autobiographical, profoundly personal. The photographers...
Wilderness Society, 1988. — 32 p. The Wilderness Society; a preface by John Szarkowsky, Director of the Photograhic Department of the Museaum of Modern Art, New York City; this softcover is full of beautiful Ansel Adams photographs; and essays written by Ansel Adams.
Little, Brown, 1983. — 200 p. In 1983, Ansel Adams picked 40 of his most memorable and diverse black and white photographs as examples of his work. For each one he wrote a brief essay that described the circumstances of deciding to photograph the subject, how he came to prepare for the photography, his companions, special challenges that occurred along the way, how he selected...
Little, Brown&Company, 1977. — 156 p. Over his career Ansel Adams produced seven portfolios of photographic prints, the earliest dated 1948, the latest 1976. Each portfolio was "conceived as an expressive whole." The portfolios were issued in limited editions ranging from 75 to 250, and they contained between ten and sixteen prints each. THE PORTFOLIOS OF ANSEL ADAMS reproduces...
Little, Brown and Company, 2000. — 116 p. Next to Yosemite and the High Sierra, the Southwest was closest to Ansel Adams' heart. It was there, in the early 1930s, that he met photographer Paul Strand and decided to make photography his life's work. In his words, "wherever one goes in the Southwest one encounters magic, strength, and beauty." In The Grand Canyon and the...
Aperture, 1994. — 200 p. A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea...
The Baker & Taylor, 1893. — 104 p. In presenting the following chapters on Amateur Photography in book form, the author wishes to make public acknowledgment to the editors of The Christian Union and Outing, by whose permission they are here reprinted, with necessary revision and additions, from the respective periodicals wherein they first appeared. The first six chapters were...
A truly one-off collection of Alexa's writing, doodles and photographs, It combines stories of early style inspirations such as her grandpa and the Spice Girls with discussion of figures of obsession like Jane Birkin and Annie Hall, and reflects on heartbreak, how to get dressed in the morning, the challenges of taking a good selfie, and more. Interspersed with pages from...
Little, Brown & Co., 1986. — 109 p. These classic photographs were selected by the late Ansel Adams himself to be permanently representative of his work. Included are familiar scenic compositions like Moonrise, Hernandez and Half Dome, Yosemite, but there are also portraiture and closeups of patterns in nature. Alinder, director of Friends of Photography, chronicles Adams's...
Little, Brown & Co., 1986. — 109 p. These classic photographs were selected by the late Ansel Adams himself to be permanently representative of his work. Included are familiar scenic compositions like Moonrise, Hernandez and Half Dome, Yosemite, but there are also portraiture and closeups of patterns in nature. Alinder, director of Friends of Photography, chronicles Adams's...
Little, Brown, 2001. — 428 p. In his early years in Yosemite, Ansel Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity. Among the family, friends, and colleagues with whom he corresponded rank such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Jimmy Carter.
Bloomsbury USA, 2014. — 416 p. Group f.64 is perhaps the most famous movement in the history of photography, counting among its members Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston. Revolutionary in their day, Group f.64 was one of the first modern art movements equally defined by women. From the San Francisco Bay Area, its influence...
Dial Press, 1980. — 248 p. The photographs in this extraordinary book are the work of a previously unknown pioneer in early 20th century photography, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii -- commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1909 to travel throughout the Russian Empire photographing things of interest and significance. To view these color images of an era we are accustomed to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 251 p. Representation and Photography contains 12 classic articles by important thinkers such as John Berger, Victor Burgin, Griselda Pollock, Jo Spence, and John Tagg. These seminal essays were first published between 1976 and 1981 in Screen Education, the influential journal that pioneered the teaching and study of the visual image. They applied to...
Camera, 1915. — 430 p. Back in the 70's of the last century — not so many years ago, after all — photography was in its infancy and but little practiced by the general public. The few professionals who made it their regular business prepared most of their own materials, plates, papers, etc., and the results were frequently very uncertain, as they depended largely upon local...
Light Work, 2009. — 52 p. — (Contact sheet). Catalog of an exhibition held at the gallery of the Robert B. Menschel Media Center, Syracuse, N.Y., August 14-October 21, 2009.
Franklin Watts, 2005. — 136 p. — (Great Life Stories). Presents the life and accomplishments of the first American photographer allowed in the Soviet Union, and one of the first photographers for "Life" magazine.
Focal Press, 2017. — 389 p. Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists is a book about the first photography-on-paper process from the dawn of photography’s history. In Salted Paper Printing this 19th century process is updated with 21st century digital negative methods. With a few inexpensive ingredients such as ordinary table salt and...
Focal Press, 2017. — 389 p. Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists is a book about the first photography-on-paper process from the dawn of photography’s history. In Salted Paper Printing this 19th century process is updated with 21st century digital negative methods. With a few inexpensive ingredients such as ordinary table salt and...
Routledge, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138101500. Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by the medium’s leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One provides a step-by-step description of the gum printing process. From setting up the "dimroom" (no darkroom required!) to...
Photo-era, 1914. — 84 p. So many technical articles of the highest quality have appeared in photographic magazines, and there are so many textbooks giving formulae, that it would seem superfluous to treat of such matters extensively in the present volume, even apart from the fact that the writer believes the subjective qualities to be a much rarer possession than technical...
Lippincott, 1917. — 346 p. In preparing the discussion of the technique of pictorial photography which is given in the following pages the author's purpose has been to produce a book adapted to the needs of those workers who, without wishing to undertake a study of the abstruse scientific phases of the art, nevertheless have passed beyond the elementary stages and feel a desire...
Lippincott, 1919. — 376 p. Excerpt from The Fine Art of Photography In "Pictorial Photography, Its Principles and Practice" the author endeavored to produce a textbook which should furnish technical information to those camera workers who desire to express artistic impulses, thus enabling them to choose the best medium for any particular purpose, and to become skilled in its...
Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1892. — 238 p. In the first few chapters of this book I have endeavoured to consider the claims of Photography to rank as an original Art. Now, a great deal has been written on this subject which has given rise to much angry discussion, artists and critics, as a rule, until lately maintaining that in no sense can Photography ever be an art at all; while...
25th ed. — Aperture Foundation, 1997. — 188 p. Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph was originally published in 1972, one year after the artist's death, in conjunction with a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art. Edited and designed by Arbus's daughter, Doon, and her friend and colleague, painter Marvin Israel, the monograph contains eighty of her most masterful...
Syracuse University Press, 2010. — 296 p. From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors...
Atheneum Books For Young Readers, 2005. — 168 p. Mathew B. Brady was already a famous photographer by the time the Civil War began. But the war gave Brady something else: The chance to make a record of a war -- this war -- in a way that had never been done before: with true-to-life pictures instead of just words. He hired field photographers to travel with the troops, equipped...
Harry N. Abrams, 1975. — 248 p. The Instant It Happened presents the most notable photographs from The Associated Press's 125 years of gathering news from the corners of the globe, and the stories behind them — of the men and women who caught the instant on film — in over 200 p. with over 100 photographs! The Editors looked for photographs that instantly tell a story — the...
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. — 220 p. Avedon never was much influenced by painting. His photographs are always photographs, and they do not play sentimentally with the stillness of the photographic image — the unearned or mechanical stillness. In Avedon's photographs, that stillness is ravaged by motion, the hint of motion, or by feeling: that is to say, emotion. He will...
Dillon Press, 1992. — 120 p. Traces the life and accomplishments of the noted photojournalist who served as a foreign correspondent for the magazine "Life" during World War II and the Korean War. When Margaret Bourke-White was a child, her mother urged her to "open all the doors." In the years that followed, Margaret took that advice to heart, opening the doors that were closed...
Barron's, 1997. — 196 p. Along with a brief history of photography and its beginnings in the 19th century, descriptions of photography as an art form, techniques, processes, darkroom chemistry, photo composition, and different camera types are described in detail. Ideal for would-be photographers, hobbyists, history buffs, and art lovers alike. More than 400 photos and...
Vermont Bureau of Publicity, 1913. — 208 p. Long, long ago, so long ago that nobody knows just when or where it was given, the name Green mountains was bestowed upon the mountain range that extends through the State of Vermont from its southern to its northern border. The most that is known concerning the origin of this name is that it was given by the French, the first...
The Davis Press, 1918. — 134 p. This book is a revision of a series of illustrated articles first published in the School Arts Magazine. The articles were written in the hope that they might promote a more intelligent and extensive use of the camera in the public schools as an aid to knowledge and taste. They are now reprinted in book form in the hope that they may be useful to...
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991. — 92 p. The purpose of this book is Lo provide a series of concise explanations of the terms most frequently used by curators, collectors, and historians to deal with the phenomenon called photography. As this book is intended for someone actually looking at photographs, the list of terms has been limited to those likely to appear on descriptive...
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996. — 123 p. — (Getty Museum Studies on Art). Roger Fenton's photograph Pasha and Bayadere is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In his rich and detailed study, Baldwin explains how this image of a seated man and a dancing woman...
T.F. Unwin, 1913. — 378 p. An account of personal experiences during the Turco-Balkan war, 1912... With 36 illustrations from photographs by the author. The war which broke out in October, 1912, between Turkey and the Allied Balkan States is so important, regarded either from the point of view of its bearing on the wider international politics of Europe or from that of the...
F. J. Drake, 1903. — 334 p. Within the whole range of human endeavot there has been no more brilliant accomplishment than that which lias, in the course of scientific evolution, given to the world the beautiful and marvelous science of photography, and in a form so simple that the students of the art, with the exercise of a little patience, application and ordinary...
Merrell, 2005. — 262 p. A complete retrospective monograph on the work of Garry Fabian Miller published by Merrell with a comprehensive essay by Martin Barnes, Head of Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The pictures in this book are amazing. Made by contact printing found items onto Cibachrome paper (called dye destruction paper in this book), Illumine...
2nd Edition. — William Morrow, 1951. — 248 p. Specialising in court, society and ballet portraiture, Baron once called himself the ‘poor man’s Cecil Beaton’ but was far from that. He became the official photographer to Sadler’s Wells Company at Covent Garden, the Ballet Theatre from America and the de Basil Company whilst also photographing every major figure in ballet who...
University of California Press, 2000. — 360 p. This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture,...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. — 184 p. The Space Race was an exhilirating moment in history, alternately frighten-ing, thrilling, awe-inspiring, and ultimately, sublime. Its most enigmatic element was the competition. The Soviets seemed less technologically sophisticated (at least from the American perspective) but in fact won many of the races: first satellite to orbit...
The MIT Press, 2002. — 249 p. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography. The essays all...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. — 128 p. The success of Photobooth demonstrates, the power of historical photographs to speak across time and place and create an emotional connection with contemporary readers. "Forget Me Not" directly explores this relationship between photography and memory, and shows how ordinary people have sought to strengthen the emotional appeal of...
I. B. Tauris, London, New York, 2004. — 240 p. — ISBN 1- 86064-378-7. This clear and challenging re-evaluation of the status and usage of photographic images in historical surrealism puts surrealism's fundamental issues back into the framework of its historical purpose and function. David Bate asks what a surrealist photograph actually is. He discusses automatism and the...
Salvador Dali Museum, 1997. — 140 p. "Why Man Ray?", one can immediately inquire. Certainly because he was the finest of his profession. Finest, as in most proficient: measured by the highest quality of imagination mixed with technical prowess. With all such vigorous encomiums, one can still question how a foreigner, particularly one so recently arrived in Paris, could have...
Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives, 1860. — 66 p. Albums of 19th century commercial photographs portraying the landscape, architecture, and people of Egypt. The 2 leather bound albums contain photographic prints (26 x 21 cm): b&w, albumen mounted individually to leaves of heavy white cardstock; v.1 contains 32 plates with views of Ramesseum, Deir-el-Meda and Mendinet Habu...
The MIT Press, 1993. — 119 p. Gas Tanks 1965−2009 comprises nine gelatin silver print photographs taken by Bernd and Hilla Becher over a period of more than thirty years and printed in 2013 under the supervision of Hilla Becher. The prints are arranged in three rows of three. Although they exist in an edition of five, the grouping and sequencing of the images in this particular...
The Baker & Taylor Company, 1907. — 246 p. Art in photography is possible only in an extension of the methods known and in the employment of new processes to effect a manipulation of the photo-image. When the tool is made so pliable that it records more than the surface appearance of things, when the personal element enters to give life to the accurate records, the present...
Arcadia, 2017. — 128 p. — (Images of America). From 1927 until his death in 1979, E.F. Joseph documented the daily lives of African Americans in the Bay Area. His images were printed in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender but not widely published in his home community. A graduate of the American School of Photography in Illinois, Joseph photographed the likes of...
T. McLean, 1855. — 140 p. In days when calotyping young ladies in civilised society talk about their "blacks" — with all the unctuousness of a Mrs Steecher Bowe, when she converses on a subject of a kindred saturnine character — it would be a work of supererogation if the humble author of these pages were to inform his readers that Photography is a highly popular scientific...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. — 316 p. The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how photomechanical reproduction allowed the illustrated press to envisage modern life on a much more intense scale than ever before. This book...
Reaktion Books, 2015. — 116 p. Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay “A Short History of Photography” is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicephore Niepce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 323 p. Photography in Japan 1853-1912 is a fascinating visual record of Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern, industrial nation at a time when the art of photography was still in its infancy. The 350 rare and antique photos in this book, most of them published here for the first time, chronicle the introduction...
Tuttle Company, 1996. — 175 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4629-1137-0. This book reproduces over 140 images taken between 1853 and 1905 by the most important local and foreign photographers then working in Japan. Almost one-fourth of the images are handcolored, superb examples of a rich art form long since vanished." "Important features of Early Japanese Images include a historical overview...
Dover Publications, 2000. — 80 p. — (Dover Pictorial Archive). For almost a century, W. A. Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His painstakingly prepared images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity in uniformity: no two...
Dover Publications, 2000. — 83 p. — (Dover Pictorial Archive). For almost a century, W. A. Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His painstakingly prepared images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity in uniformity: no two...
Douglas & McIntyre, 1995. — 214 p. Photographs by Roloff Beny - passionate traveler, acclaimed photographer and creator of sixteen remarkable books - have until now conjured up timeless images of classical art and architecture, the beauty of nature and the exotic ritual of far-away lands. Here, at last, springs to life Beny's best-kept secret, buried deep in the archive at his...
Aperture, 1991. — 152 p. Combining photographs, diary entries, and taped conversations, and with an introduction by Paul Bowles, this is the true story of a young Moroccan girl who commits suicide because her virginity is questioned. The startling and often disturbing photographs evoke a world and culture alien to the Western mind and experience. The evocative text is never...
Guggenheim Museum, 1997. — 236 p. The Guggenheim's classic study of photo-based artworks that question gender identity is back in print at last. This important volume, whose title combines Gertrude Stein's famous motto, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," with the name of Marcel Duchamp's feminine alter ego, Rrose Selavy, features portraits, self-portraits and photomontages...
University of New Mexico Press, 1993. — 388 p. This engaging collection of interviews and critical writings represents a search for a broader definition of the photographic medium as one connected to cultural streams, political dialogue, art ideas, and biographic expression. John Bloom, a writer, critic, and artist from the Bay Area, examines. the photographic goings-on in his...
10th Edition. — Sierra Club Books, 2002. — 160 p. With more than seventy brilliant color photographs and accompanying rich text, Mother Earth combines the work of some of the world’s most talented women photographers with the poetry and prose of eminent women writers to present a unique women’s perspective on our planet. Divided into five sections, the book celebrates Earth’s...
Jazz Publishing, 2010. — 148 p. Contained within these pages are 100 of the best-attested photographs in the history of the paranormal. Also includes hundreds of Sightings news reports and readers' own spooky experiences and photographs from the pages of Paranormal Magazine.
Open Road, 2012. — 293 p. Bosworth’s remarkable look at the life of Diane Arbus, one of the most acclaimed and provocative photographers of her time Diane Arbus became famous for her intimate and unconventional portraits of twins, dwarfs, sideshow performers, eccentrics, and everyday “freaks.” Condemned by some for voyeurism, praised by others for compassion, she was...
AMS Press, 1931. — 192 p. This book records, partly in words, partly in photographs, my experiences in the Soviet Union during the summer of I930. I went to photograph the vast new industry which is being built under the Five Year Plan. I spent five weeks in Russia. During that time the splendid cooperation of the authorities enabled me to travel more than five thousand miles...
Bowdoin College, 1995. — 36 p. Accompanies an exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from September 22 through November 26, 1995 Bowdoin Photographers: Liberal Arts Lens is a gathering of photographic work hy Bowdoin graduates who studied with photographer John McKee. The exhibition evinces an enormous diversity and dynamism that is a testament to Associate Professor...
Bowdoin College, 1978. — 12 p. Some distinctions. Landscape, not scenery. The 'photogenic' — whether grand, or sordid, or merely 1977 trivial — is left aside. Further, 'landscape' is not confined to the out-of-doors; for certain photographers a stairwell may have the potential of a chasm. But at the same time, these photographs hardly touch that domain, closely allied to modern...
Bowdoin College, 2014. — 24 p. Accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, February 27 through June 1, 2014. Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography investigates the interest of a diverse group of early twentieth-century modernists in using photography to see beyond the visible and the knowable. These artists' desire to delve "under the...
The Observer, 1980. — 140 p. Most people have never heard of Jane Bown, but we have probably all seen her famous work. She was a staff photographer for The Observer newspaper since 1949.
Regan Books, 2007. — 360 p. Sammy Davis, Jr. will forever be remembered as one of America's finest entertainers. An all–around performer who could sing, dance, and act, Davis broke racial barriers in the entertainment world and became the only non–white member of the Rat Pack. Only now, however, is Davis's talent as a photographer finally being recognized. In this previously...
University Of Chicago Press, 1997. — 340 p. Nicknamed the "Eye of Paris" by Henry Miller, Brassai was one of the great European photographers of the twentieth century. This volume of letters and photographs, many published for the first time, chronicles the fascinating early years of Brassai's life and artistic development in Paris and Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s.
Routledge, 2016. — 239 p. As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen, or recording places where something occurred before the photograph was taken, commonly referred to as aftermath photography. This book presents a theoretical and historical analysis of German...
2nd Edition. — Griffin, 1899. — 540 p. In the preparation of the following work, my aim has been to produce a Handbook for the use of Students of Photography, which should both give the results of practical experience, and include as far as possible within a moderate compass information gathered from many sources, and not readily accessible. In this second edition of my...
C. Griffin, 1892. — 512 p. In the preparation of the following work, my aim has been to produce a Handbook for the use of Students of Photography, which should both give the results of practical experience, and include — as far as possible within a moderate compass information gathered from many sources, and not readily accessible. The newer methods have been dealt with in...
Sierra Club, 1969. — 164 p. Stunning photographs by some of the country's most famous photographers combined with the powerful verses of Robinson Jeffers. This now out-of-print book, Not Man Apart, from the Sierra Club from 1965 of photos from various Big Sur area photographers and poetry by Robinson Jeffers, is a green earth book so appropriate for us today. It is perhaps part...
University of Minnesota Press, 2011. — 276 p. Pictures of animals are now ubiquitous, but the ability to capture animals on film was a significant challenge in the early era of photography. In Developing Animals, Matthew Brower takes us back to the time when Americans started taking pictures of the animal kingdom, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the moment when...
Bramhall Books, 1955. — 280 p. Mark H. Brown and W. R. Felton wrote two well-researched accounts of the photographs of Laton Alton Huffman (1854-1931): "The Frontier Years" in 1955 and "Before Barbed Wire" in 1956. Both books are delightful reading, providing rare insights into the stories behind Huffman's superb photos and the daily life of old west pioneers before the arrival...
The Macmillan Company, 1904. — 346 p. – (The American Sportsman's Library). For many years the advancement in the photographic art was extremely slow, but for the past twenty years it has advanced with enormous strides, until now we have but one thing more to look forward to,—the taking of photographs in natural colors. I have endeavored to make it as complete a text-book of...
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 329 p. Internationally renowned as an exciting guide to unknown peoples and places, Norwegian Carl Lumholtz was a Victorian-era explorer, anthropologist, natural scientist, writer, and photographer who worked in Australia, Mexico, and Borneo. His photographs of the Tarahumara, Huichol, Cora, Tepehuan, Southern Pima, and Tohono O'odham tribes...
Brassey's US, 1999. — 244 p. Retired now but long the Central Intelligence Agency's expert on photo fakery and manipulation, Brugioni presents hundreds of photographs that have been altered or contrived, some of which succeeded and played important parts in history. He also explains to non- photographers the techniques of fakin.
New York Graphic Society, 1974. — 136 p. During the nineteenth century it became possible for the first time in history to bring before a wide public actual scenes of distant events, of wars and famines, of famous persons and intimate scenes, and to record permanently the look and detail of the life of a particular time and place. It can be argued that t he introduction of the...
Black Dog & Leventhal, 1999. — 258 p. Pulitzer Prize. These words have come to represent excellence and the pinnacle of achievement in journalism. In 1942, the Pulitzer board, recognizing that photographs provide the lasting images that serve as benchmarks in our lives, began awarding Pulitzer Prizes for photojournalism. Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs collects...
A.S. Barnes, 1969. — 264 p. This book was about thirty years ahead of its time in taking seriously the work of a Hollywood studio portrait photographer, in this case one of the best: Clarence Sinclair Bull. Raymond Lee, the author, was a dear man who made all of $300 on this book. It broke his heart, "The Faces of Hollywood" remains a classic Hollywood book.
Aperture, 1976. — 104 p. — (The Aperture history of photography). This is a great collection of Bullock's black and white work. Wynn Bullock was a consummate practitioner of the craft of photography, using the tools of his trade to express himself with eloquence. He is not easily placed within his chosen field, however, as he kept challenging and redefining the medium. Born in...
Friends of Photography, 1986. — 146 p. This volume is the first commissioned anthology of writings on Edward Weston. Coming as it docs soon after the 1984 publication of Beaumont Newhalls and Amy Congers Edward Weston Omnibus, an anthology of selected criticism about Weston which for the most part had been published during his lifetime, this new collection gives the reader an...
Friends of Photography, 1986. — 148 p. I986 is the centennial of Edward Weston's birth, and while such a commemorative date may be an artificial point at which to reappraise and even salute an artist's odyssey, it has become tradition. Thus, in this issue of Untitled, The Friends of Photography has provided an opportunity for nine writers and scholars to review and reconsider...
Scovill Manufacturing Company, 1888. — 220 p. Written as a practical guide to the preparation of sensitive surfaces by the calotype, albumen, collodion, and gelatin processes, on glass and paper, with supplementary chapters on development, etc., etc. This book, like its companion, "Photographic Printing Methods," is the outcome of my wish to testify to the exceeding great...
Viking Press, 1980. — 100 p. Ladies and gentlemen, meet, as they say, the stars. But not the stars in conscious glory, desperately shining. The stars off their guard; the stars naked - sometimes literally so. Charlie Chaplin near to death, Frank Sinatra fat and yawning, Bardot adroop, Elizabeth Taylor dumpy but happy, Tony Armstrong-Jones miserable. And others.
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 202 p. Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory...
Chronicle, 1987. — 148 p. As an old print merchant, I used to resent the aphorism. "A picture is worth a thousand words," until somebody observed, "It look words to say that." My tender ego was further assuaged when a press agent was quoted as saying, "A word in Caen's column is worth a thousand pictures," a proposition I am not prepared to defend or even discuss. That personal...
New York Graphic Society, 1974. — 129 p. The photographic work of John de Visser has been called brilliant and revealing, beautiful and powerful. One reviewer has said that "de Visser does not take photographs -he paints the elements of life with a camera." Another has said, "de Visser is that rare genius to whom the lens becomes an instrument of inner vision."
Auckland University Press, 2008. — 159 p. An authoritative history of combat photography and its cultural, emotional, and memorial roles, this collection is the first to examine the vernacular photos of World War I taken by its New Zealand participants. The book discusses how photography was used to capture and narrate, memorialize and observe, romanticize and bear witness to...
A&W Visual Library, 1973. — 132 p. Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women by Julia Margaret Cameron was first published in 1926. The book contained Virginia Woolf's entertaining account of her great-aunt, and Roger Fry's analysis of Mrs. Cameron's photographs which was well ahead of its time in appreciating some of the virtues of photography. This new edition...
The University of Minnesota Press, 2014. — 289 p. In Agitating Images, Craig Campbell draws a rich and unsettling cultural portrait of the encounter between indigenous Siberians and Russian communists and reveals how photographs from this period complicate our understanding of this history. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how photographs go against accepted premises of...
Modern Library, 1999. — 274 p. In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on assignment to photograph the war raging in Europe. In these pages, Capa...
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly, 2002. — 150 p. The tintype, patented in 1856, was a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. For common laborers and their families, the opportunity to join the ranks of those who owned pictures of family and friends--the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 233 p. Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography's relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography. Evocative and powerful, Italian social documentary photography from the 1930s to the 1960s is a rich source of...
HCJ Studio, 2005. — 156 p. Featuring 70 duotone images and 70 Civil War quotes, this striking book captures the spirit that inhabits the Antietam National Battlefield. With her adept camera ability, Ms. Casser-Jayne defines the contradiction of America's best-preserved battlefield in evocative often-poignant landscapes that reveal the awkward beauty in the savagery of the...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 165 p. — ISBN10: 113733830X; ISBN13: 978-1137338303. This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology,...
Sierra Club, 1960. — 104 p. His work meals a strange and compelling beauty; it is not obscure, oblique, mechanical, or intellectual, but is the evidence of a great insight and intuitive power. It moves the Spirit; then, because it is so simple and direct, it moves the mind and conscience... What is offered here is not merely a collection of nostalgic and beautiful pictures and...
Centre Pompidou, 2007. — 478 p. The Centre Pompidou in Paris houses one of the greatest collections of twentieth century photography in the world. This book comprises a comprehensive catalogue of the collection, 350 photographs by 283 of the most famous artists and photographers. The book is comprised of 6 sections, each introduced by a short essay, and proposes a new history...
Light Work, 1998. — 28 p. — (Contact sheet - 95). This exhibition, Eclectic Flavour, bears witness to the ever-evolving and constantly diversifying creative impulses amongst Britain's Black photographers. Within this exhibition we can see. at first hand, some of the ways in which 'Black British photography' has undergone a continual process o f pluralisation that brings with it...
Artist Project, 1995. — 228 p. A book of hard-core urban street photographs by Peter Bellamy coupled with gritty beautiful poems by Joseph Chassler this remarkable book is on life in street form. Darkness..Animal Passions...in a way that somehow ennobles them...They take us in...Show us secrets...Forbidden Paths...We join the addicts, alcoholics, junkies, and homeless, lie on...
Kehayoff, 2001. — 78 p. The photographs of Florence Chevallier are like looking into a multi-faceted crystal ball. As if drawn by an unseen hand, they appear, only to disappear once more. They do not allow the observer to "grasp" them or to focus on them. At the expense of commitment, they merge into diptychs which only appear to be unconnected. Details are displaced,...
David R. Godine, 2008. — 132 p. Carl Chiarenza, whose extraordinary career as a photographer, writer, and teacher now spans five decades, remains a name relatively unknown among the pantheon of American masters. His photographs, luminous, dark, coruscated with deep shadows, and alive with the play of light, are challenging and abstract, studies of blacks and whites in the...
Timeless, 2016. — 262 p. The reprint of the first ever book to exhaustively document the legendary unpublished photographic work of Peter Christopherson from Throbbing Gristle, Coil and Hipgnosis. The first edition of the book published in November of 2014 and notably the 60th anniversary deluxe boxset edition published in 2015 sold out in record-breaking time and has already...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 252 p. — (Oxford History of Art). Clarke (literary and image studies, Univ. of Kent, Canterbury) contributes one of the first entries in a series of short texts now being published by Oxford that treat aspects of art history. A vast amount has been written about photography, its history, its practitioners and processes, its influences as an art...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 252 p. The Oxford History of Art is a major series of ground-breaking, authoritative, and beautifully illustrated books by art historians at the forefront of new thinking. From the first misty 'heliograph' taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Stieglitz, and the striking postmodern...
Taplinger, 1977. — 150 p. The first true photographs were made in the early years of the 19th eentury; by 1900 all the basic techniques of modern photography had been established. In a rudimentary form all the materials, equipment and even such processes as incamera development, color photography and cinematography were in existence by the turn of the century. This first...
Crown, 1978. — 248 p. A comprehensive history of a wide variety of still cameras, from 1839 through 1978. Well written and profusely illustrated with unusually clear color drawings.
Priory Press, 1973. — 104 p. — (Pioneers of Science & Discovery). The word "Kodak" might almost stand for "camera," although it really refers to one particular photographic company, founded by George Eastman in 1880. It was Eastman's invention of a new photographic emulsion, of roll film, and above all of a simple camera, which made photography available to all. But much had...
PowerHouse Books, 2001. — 208 p. A collection compiled by John Cohen of his own photographs, this book contains glimpses into a cultural past that we are hard-pressed to find lingering in today’s mass markets. Music, dance, poets, city streets and country roads, religion all weave together in this black-and-white photocumentary. Each photo blurs the boundary between reading,...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1985. — 50 p. A collection of Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs, with an introductory essay by Van Deren Coke. Witkin's first recorded photographs were of freaks on Coney Island made during the 1950s, giving an early indication of his ambition to challenge the boundaries of acceptable taste. His subject matter included death, blasphemy,...
Aperture, 1998. — 188 p. — (An Aperture Monograph) Reprinted for the first time, this is the most comprehensive collection of the photographer's work ever published. It includes portraits from her early years as a fashionable studio photographer as well as classic images that established her as the preeminent documentary artist of her time. “Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a...
Photographers' Institute Press / PIP, 2009. — 191 p. Presented in chronological order are 75 cameras from the National Media Museum in Bradford, England. A separate chapter is devoted to each era, and a double spread is devoted to each chamber. From Colin Harding’s highly successful Classic Cameras feature, which runs regularly in Black and White Photography magazine, comes a...
Rizzoli, 1988. — 196 p. This is the companion volume to the exhibit that inaugurated Florence's Fratelli Alinari Museum of Photography and currently is traveling throughout the U.S. and Canada under Smithsonian auspices. Sontag notes that the book's title "announces a double narrative: a century of Italy as well as a century of photography." Although these 160 duotone images...
Beacon Press, 2007. — 102 p. Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Her partner Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was a photographer and pioneer gallery owner. Intertwining Oliver's prose with Cook's photographs, Our World is an intimate testament to their life together. The poet's moving text...
Routledge, 1995. — 295 p. Fully Exposed is a pioneering cultural history of the photography of the male nude which sets the photographer and the model within our cultural and historical perceptions and prejudices. This second edition extends the book's coverage so that the story from the beginnings of the medium to the present day is complete. Fully Exposed is lavishly...
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. — 120 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-120-5. Early in 1972 the Metropolitan Museum opened an exhibition of photographs that held visitors in fascination. The subject was China: the land, the people, the changing ways of life there. The perspective was historical, beginning with camera images of a century ago and progressing to documentary...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 207 p. Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011. Appeals to people interested in artist's use of photography and in contemporary...
Crown, 1996. — 196 p. Like the Family of Man, the appeal of this book is its depiction of the many faces of African American families from the 1920s to today as photographed by by master black photographers and promising contemporary ones. A collection of beautiful and expressive images, these photos show the spirit of the subject, while the text captures it in words.
Saybrook Pub, 1986. — 184 p. This book is a camera chronicle of the human situation as observed in visits to five continents over a quarter-century. The camera, no less than a notebook, has been part of Norman Cousins' traveling kit on journeys during his editorship of The Saturday Review and in his present work as Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of California...
Aperture, 1987. — 100 p. — (Aperture Masters of Photography. Number Five) Dorothea Lange is best known tor the photographs she made in the 1930s when she worked tor the Farm Security Administration. It was during this time that she photographed such powerful images as Migrant Mother. From her documentation of California's migratory workers who fled dust and drought on the Great...
The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. — 580 p. According to one of Julia Margaret Cameron's great-nieces, "We never knew what Aunt Julia was going to do next, nor did any one else." This is an accurate summation of the life of the British photographer (1815-1879), who took up the camera at age forty-eight and made more than a thousand images over the next fourteen years. Living at...
Morgan & Morgan, 1979. — 360 p. This book has been officially out of print for years now, but it's worth tracking down if you have an interest in 19th and early 20th-century photographic processes. Crawford's book is unique in providing first an historical overview of the development of photography, and how it developed into an art form (some of this feels a little bit dated:...
Henry Greenwood & Co., 1973. — 278 p. This year a fresh art editor brings a new taste and outlook to the Picture section of the 1972 BJ Photography Annual. The current year has seen the photographer more and more concerned with the everyday environment of the world around him, and this pre-occupation, an application itself in which the photographer excels, is reflected in the...
Thames & Hudson, 1997. — 236 p. American artist Cindy Sherman creates staged and manipulated photographs that draw on popular culture and art history to explore female identity. Her art embodies two developments in the art world: the impact of postmodern theory on art practice; and the rise of photography and mass-media techniques as modes of artistic expression. This volume,...
The MIT Press, 2014. — 369 p. Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most important explorations of this condition. The history of visual technologies reveals a centuries-long project aimed at controlling light. In this book, Sean Cubitt traces a genealogy of the dominant visual media of the twenty-first century – digital video, film, and photography...
University of Nebraska, 2001. — 192 p. The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great Plains — Lakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, among others — are recalled in stunning detail in this collection of photographs by Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952). Curtis is the best-known photographer of Native Americans because...
Lerner Publications, 1996. — 94 p. America Discovers the Camera is the subtitle for this history of the first hundred years of still photography, from its beginnings in France with Niepce and Daguerre, through Brady's pioneering work during the Civil War, the settlement of the West, tintypes, stereographs, cartes de visites, Eastman's revolutionary advances that brought...
Taschen GmbH, 1992. — 80 p. Quality: Good Language: English Iconic French photographer Dahmane reveals the natural connection between cityscapes and nudes. Iconic French photographer Dahmane feels a natural connection between urban landscape and nudes. The lines, shadows and form of his exquisite architectural and cityscape work make for a perfect match with the sensual beauty...
University of California Press, 2002. — 299 p. When Ruth Harriet Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio with "more stars than there are in heaven," she was twenty-two years old and the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the Hollywood studios. In a career that lasted from 1925 until 1930, Louise (born Ruth Goldstein) photographed all the stars, contract...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. — 20 p. Exhibition catalog in The Springs of achievement Series on the Art of Photography. Eugene Cuvelier brought the spirit of mid-nineteenth century landscape painting to the still young medium of photography. His carefully composed and richly printed photographs were admired by the pre-Impressionists, contributing to their vision while...
Paddington Press, 1977. — 208 p. Photographs have begun to command a new respect as works of art, receiving their own galleries and exhibitions and earning continually higher prices from collectors and investors. In spite of this enormous growth of interest, surprisingly little is known about what the major photographers think of their own work and of photography in general....
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 230 p. The 100 scientific photographs assembled here (over a quarter of them in full color) span the history of photography, from its origins 150 years ago to the present day, and range from the earliest collodion plates of a solar eclipse to digitally encoded photographs relayed from deep space. The author has supplied photographic and...
Chronicle Books, 2019. — 288 p. Jim Marshall created iconic images of rock 'n' roll stars, jazz greats, and civil rights leaders. He had the power to look into the soul of an individual and to capture the mood of an entire generation. This deluxe, career-spanning volume showcases hundreds of photographs: intimate portraits, heady crowd scenes, and haunting street shots evoking...
Chronicle Books, 2019. — 288 p. Jim Marshall created iconic images of rock 'n' roll stars, jazz greats, and civil rights leaders. He had the power to look into the soul of an individual and to capture the mood of an entire generation. This deluxe, career-spanning volume showcases hundreds of photographs: intimate portraits, heady crowd scenes, and haunting street shots evoking...
Intellect, 2014. — 218 p. Walker Evans said in his 1958 introduction to Robert Frank’s The Americans, “For the thousandth time, it must be said that pictures speak for themselves, wordlessly, visually, or they fail.” The images revolutionized postwar American photography. With their candid images of men and women from all classes and walks of life, the photographs presented a...
Museum of Modern Art, 1996. — 288 p. That DeCarava was a painter and graphic artist before turning to photography does much to explain the strong lines, extraordinarily rich tonality, and dramatic exploitation of light in his photos. Their emotional charge, however, arises from the social choices DeCarava made for his career. He has expended nearly his entire professional...
Fordham University Press, 2010. — 93 p. Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-Franois Bonhomme. But in Derrida's hands commentary always has a way of unfolding or, better, developing in several unexpected and mutually illuminating directions. First published in French and Greek in 1996,...
MIT Press, 2003. — 386 p. In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows...
Outing publishing company, 1912. — 176 p. The law of chance doesn't seem to work with some people. I know a prominent portrait photographer of the metropolis whose superb technical work I have long admired. It seems impossible that he could avoid getting a certain percentage of artistic results. Yet year after year I have watched his show window and never have I seen a single...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 320 p. Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how...
Elsa.photo.net, 2003. — 64 p. Riveting, brave, touching, funny, heartwarming, stirring, moving and inspiring, portraits don?t get more intimate than those by famous portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman with her legendary huge polaroid camera in No Hair Day. With astonishing pride, candor and courage, these three women, brought together by medical fate, reveal, in the amazing text...
2nd Edition. — Scrimshaw Press, 1972. — 112 p. Nell Dorr was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895. Her father, John Jacob Becker, was a photographic pioneer and chemist. It was literally at his knee that she learned the magic and the joy ot the darkroom.
Random House, 1974. — 255 p. The images by 86 photographers from work owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, present a record of photography's evolving artistry and a visual history of a century of American life. Introduction by Minor White.
2nd Edition. — Dover Publications, 1978. — 148 p. In 1902 Stieglitz announced the formation of a new society, the "Photo-Secession." Nothing like it had been seen before; it was an outpost of modern art. With his friends — Eduard Steichen in particular — Stieglitz was to demonstrate the place of photography in the broad stream of art. They did this by exhibiting the work of the...
Ziff-Davis, 1959. — 252 p. The 1960 annual survey of photography by Popular Photography magazine with a color portfolio by Richard Avedon; a portfolio by Bruce Davidson; a tribute to Dan Weiner; and work by Elliott Erwitt, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Wingate Paine, Irving Penn, David Douglas Duncan, Weegee, and others.
I.B.Tauris & Co., 2007. — 225 p. This is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves beyond standard postmodern approaches, instead repositioning the artist, born Lucy Schwob, in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived and seeing the photographs as part of Cahun's wider life as an...
Veritas Publications, 2000. — 72 p. A visit by photographer Bill Doyle to Inis Oirr in 1965 led to this stunning collection of photographs and accompanying bilingual text.`The publishing gem of the year has to be Island Funeral, an extraordinary collection of photographs by the distinguished Irish photographer Bill Doyle. The photographs are a unique record of one aspect of a...
Yale University Press, 2001. — 288 p. The Cold War, Sputnik, Joseph McCarthy, Fidel Castro, the Rosenbergs, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Father Knows Best and Rebel Without a Cause are just a few of the events, people, and cultural phenomena that marked the decade of the 1950s. This stunning book, a collection of two hundred large-scale duotone photographs of the 1950s culled...
The Scovill & Adams, 1893. — 126 p. — (The Scovill Photographic Series). The object of this book, and its extent permit me only to give the principal rules to be observed in posing and some advice to guide the student, referring the reader to the works on the esthetics of the fine arts for more complete instruction. Nothing seems so easy as to make a portrait, nothing is more...
Universe Books, 1984. — 104 p. When the voice on the phone said, "Would you be part of my red shoes exhibit?" I thought it was some unbalanced Judy Garland fan and hung up, having had an assortment of crank calls that day, including a woman claiming to be the reincarnated Eva Tanguay. When a friend of Kenn Duncan's told me he was surprised at my rudeness, I realized my error....
Parkstone International, 2014. — 256 p. Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for mass-market consumption. Like much painting, sculpture and engraving, since its beginning photography has also been at the service of eroticism. This collection presents erotic photographs from the beginning of...
12th Edition. — Eastman Kodak Co., 1922. — 180 p. "How to Make Good Pictures" - the title of this book, explains its mission. We can only add that in it all photographic processes have been reduced to the simplest form consistent with good results — complex theories or untried experiments have not been introduced. We have given prominence to the Kodak system of picture making...
12th Edition. — Eastman Kodak Co., 1922. — 180 p. "How to Make Good Pictures" - the title of this book, explains its mission. We can only add that in it all photographic processes have been reduced to the simplest form consistent with good results — complex theories or untried experiments have not been introduced. We have given prominence to the Kodak system of picture making...
Eastman Kodak, 1898. — 128 p. This little volume will not tell everything about photography. It will trouble the reader with few technicalities and no theories. In it we shall simply endeavor to start the amateur in the right direction. His own ambitions, tastes and energies will guide him afterwards. Frankly, we shall recommend our own goods in the chapters on apparatus, etc.,...
Rochester, 1905. — 206 p. Our first object in the publication of this book is to make photography easier for the amateur. Our second is to show him the way to new pleasures in picture making. In its compilation we have endeavored to cover fully and clearly every point on which he should have information. With equal care we have avoided useless discussion of theory and have...
Rochester, 1905. — 206 p. Our first object in the publication of this book is to make photography easier for the amateur. Our second is to show him the way to new pleasures in picture making. In its compilation we have endeavored to cover fully and clearly every point on which he should have information. With equal care we have avoided useless discussion of theory and have...
E.B. Eaton, 1907. — 138 p. Rare reproductions from photographs selected from seven thousand original negatives taken under most hazardous conditions in the midst of one of the most terrific conflicts of men that the world has ever known, and in the earliest days of photography. These negatives have been in storage vaults for more than forty years and are the private collection...
4., gänzlich umgearb. und verm. Aufl. — Halle (Saale), 1932. Von Aristoteles (4. Jahrhundert v. dir.) bis zu den Alchimisten. Einfluß des Lichtes bei der Purpurfärberei der Alten Ansichten der Alchimisten Versuche mit Naturselbstdruck im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert Zur Geschichte der Camera obscura Zur Geschichte des stereoskopischen Sehens Erfindung des Projektionsapparates im 17....
4., gänzlich umgearb. und verm. Aufl. — Halle (Saale), 1932. Bromsilbergelatine Allmähliche Steigerung der Empfindlichkeit der photographischen Prozesse von 1827 bis in die neueste Zeit Bromsilbergelatinepapier für Kopierung positiver Bilder und für Vergrößerungen Die Erfindung der Chlorsilbergelatine für Diapositive und positive Papierbilder mit chemischer Entwicklung (1881)....
Dover Publications, 1978. — 900 p. This volume is the only English translation of the final (1932) edition of Josef Maria Eder's "Geschicli le der Photographiethe" definitive technical history of photography. Written, reedited, corrected and enlarged by the author over the course of more than 50 years, it is an invaluable supplement to the numerous esthetic histories of the...
Dover Publications, 1978. — 900 p. This volume is the only English translation of the final (1932) edition of Josef Maria Eder's "Geschicli le der Photographiethe" definitive technical history of photography. Written, reedited, corrected and enlarged by the author over the course of more than 50 years, it is an invaluable supplement to the numerous esthetic histories of the...
Miramax, 2002. — 264 p. For more than thirty years, The National Enquirer has electried America with unforgettable photographs and captivating stories. It has put us on a rst-name basis with stars, villains, beauties, cads, and killers-bringing remarkable stories to life with breathtaking photos that pack an emotional punch and often break news in themselves. The National...
Yale University Press, 1994. — 288 p. Since its beginnings, photography has been a resource for anthropologists in the recording of ethnographic data. This book looks at the significance and relevance of still photography in British anthropology from about 1860 until 1920. It examines how photography provides evidence of the past and how this evidence is used in conjunction...
Mariner Books, 2012. — 254 p. How a lone man’s epic obsession led to one of America’s greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history — and the driven, brilliant man who made them. Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous...
Mariner Books, 2012. — 254 p. How a lone man’s epic obsession led to one of America’s greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history — and the driven, brilliant man who made them. Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous...
Little Brown, 1999. — 196 p. If you really want to know what the 20th century looked like from a front-row seat at the main stage, this book will show you. Alfred Eisenstaedt, who was born in 1898 and lived until 1995, apparently didn't miss a thing. To give but a glimpse of the view he captured, this volume, published on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, includes scores...
Harry N. Abrams, 1981. — 118 p. Still active in his career in his eighties, in 1979 Eisenstaedt returned to his native (Germany after an absence of forty-four years — to photograph the Germany of today, as he had photographed it much earlier, in the 1920s and 1930s. The results are here: a provocative juxtaposition of a selection of Eisenstaedts finest photographs taken in...
Viking Press, 1970. — 104 p. This is a stunningly beautiful book of photos of Martha's Vineyard by one of the great photographers. He spent many summers on the Vineyard, and so was able to catch areas of the island in perfect conditions of light, cloud, etc. The photos of Menemsha after a hurricane are amazing, as are the now-eroded cliffs of Gay Head. The narrative adds...
Penguin Books, 1979. — 268 p. Dust jacket notes: "'For Alfred Eisenstaedt, the world, and especially the world of people, is a serious proposition. It is also amusing, wondrous, shocking, and infinitely various, but it is always real and in that sense, serious.'" So wrote Henry R. Luce, founder of Time, Inc., in 1966. By then Eisenstaedt had already been on the staff of Life...
Viking Press, 1969. — 208 p. This book is in answer to the many requests Eisenstaedt has received over the years asking him about his experiences as a Life photographer, how he actually took some of his great pictures, his ideas about photography, what he considers makes a good picture, and what technical advice he would offer to photographers. In The Eye of Eisenstaedt he does...
Oxmoor House, 1990. — 180 p. Pioneering photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt's affinity for Martha's Vineyard began in the late 1930s, and since then he has rarely missed a summer's pilgrimage to the quaint American retreat. This journal/portfolio begins at Gay Head and moves east, completing a circle. 150 photos, 120 in color. This is a stunningly beautiful book of photos of...
University Alabama Press, 2005. — 126 p. This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist. Ken Elkins retired as chief photographer of the Anniston Star in 2000, and this selection of his work demonstrates his brilliant eye for finding and capturing...
The Museum of Modern Art, 1966. — 120 p. Dorothea Lange has long been considered one of the seminal influences in modern documentary photography. In the early 1930's, Miss Lange moved away from formal portraits to seek her subjects outside of her studio. Her belief in people, in the significance of the ordinary, and her need to communicate what she observed have become...
London: B.T.Batsford Ltd, 1919. — 196 p. Throughout the ages the human form has been the chief inspiration of the artist, and proficiency in its representation an enviable distinction among this contemporaries. The earliest manifestations of the desire to record things seen were crude attempts to represent figures by outline, or in silhouette, scratched with sharp instruments,...
2nd Edition. — S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889. — 362 p. The call for this second edition has come so soon that I have only had time to correct a few superficial errors, and as but few reviews have as yet reached me, I cannot answer any criticisms upon my work. So far there is nothing to answer. I can only repeat that the student will do well to make artists his final...
Eros Books. Nudes of Yesteryear Eros Books, 1966. — 104 p. Originally intended as a feature for Eros, this collection of antique photographs just grew and grew until, after several years, it became large enough to constitute this book. To locate the ladies in Nudes of Yesteryear, Eros researchers hunted through archives, attics, book-stalls, and family trunks all over Europe...
Phaidon Press, 1998. — 514 p. The legendary Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt (b.1928) says that he did not consciously set out to photograph dogs. According to him, it just happened that way. And that one day, when he was looking through his boxes of photographs, he realized that somehow or other dogs had crept into a fair proportion of them. Not that they were dog portraits....
Chronicle Books, 2005. — 176 p. From acclaimed photographer and famed lover of dogs Elliott Erwitt comes Woof, the most unintentionally persuasive advertisement for dog ownership there ever was. Erwitt's eye is unfailing, and his love for dogs is captured in each and every photo. Digging a hole, barking at a cat, jauntily carrying a stickErwitt takes these ordinary moments and...
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. — 168 p. Our Mothers is a remarkable collection of portraits and essays by women photographers of different generations, cultures, and races. Paris gallery owner and editor, Viviane Esders, offered each photographer the opportunity to fill a double page spread with words and pictures describing her mother. All of the participants presented Esders...
Bay Press, 1992. — 184 p. Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Photography. MAGIC EYES is a collaboration that grew out of Wendy Ewald's experiences in the village of Raquira in the Colombian Andes between 1982 and 1984. The book combines photographs taken by Ewald and her students with stories told by two local women, Maria Vasquez and her daughter, Alicia. Together, Ewald's...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. — 320 p. Based in the Boston area, F. Holland Day (1864–1933) was a central figure in artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Publisher of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane, mentor to a young Kahlil Gibran, adviser and friend to photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Day lived a life devoted to art and beauty. At the...
Allworth Press, 1998. — 260 p. Historic Photographic Processes is a comprehensive user's guide to the historical processes that have become popular alternatives to modern and digital technology. Though many of the techniques, applications, and equipment were first developed in the nineteenth century, these same methods can be used today to create hand-crafted images that are...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 311 p. For well over a century, humanitarians and their organizations have used photographic imagery and the latest media technologies to raise public awareness and funds to alleviate human suffering. This volume examines the historical evolution of what we today call "humanitarian photography" - the mobilization of photography in the service...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 311 p. For well over a century, humanitarians and their organizations have used photographic imagery and the latest media technologies to raise public awareness and funds to alleviate human suffering. This volume examines the historical evolution of what we today call "humanitarian photography" - the mobilization of photography in the service...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 311 p. For well over a century, humanitarians and their organizations have used photographic imagery and the latest media technologies to raise public awareness and funds to alleviate human suffering. This volume examines the historical evolution of what we today call "humanitarian photography" - the mobilization of photography in the service...
Crown Publishers, 1954. — 184 p. For lovers of magnificent photography as well as New Yorkophiles there can be no finer possession than this deluxe volume. From thousands of prints, drawings and photographs in public and private collections. Andreas Feininger has selected the most colorful and picturesque views of old New York from the early Seventeenth to the early Twentieth...
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 160606035X; ISBN13: 978-1606060353. Text by Anne Lacoste. In recent years Felice Beato (1832–1909) has come to be recognized as one of the major photographers of the nineteenth century, yet until now there has been no general survey of his singular life and work. Born in Venice, Italy, Beato came of age in the Ottoman...
Bowdoin College, 2003. — 108 p. This catalogue accompanied The Disembodied Spirit Exhibition presented at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Art and the Austin Museum of Art. This exhibition was a unique interdisciplinary exploration of art and culture in the late nineteenth century and the late twentieth century involving the depiction or suggestion of ghosts....
Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996. – 66 p. Reading is so commonplace an activity that recording its occurrence might seem pointless — but when caught by the intuitive eye of photographer Harvey Finkle, it is anything but. With his uncanny sense of timing and his intimate approach to traditional street photography, Finkle creates images that not only are pleasing to look at but also...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 256 p. Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital as war, national identity, and citizenship. Cara A. Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles,...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 256 p. Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital as war, national identity, and citizenship. Cara A. Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 492 p. Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 492 p. Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 228 p. Praised as "the last classic freelance photographer" by photohistorian Helmut Gernsheim and as "a true 'Old Master' of the reflex camera" by critic Norman Rothschild, Fritz Henle (1909-1993) was one of the greatest photographers of the mid-twentieth century. Unlike most of his peers who specialized in a particular genre or style of...
Musee d'Orsay, 2008. — 98 p. This book has been conceived for the exhibition Le daguerreotype francais, collection du musee d'Orsay at Musee d'Orsay, 27th May - 7th September 2008, curated by Dominique de Font-Reaulx. A unique photograph obtained on a metal plate, simultaneously positive and negative, the daguerreotype, with its bright, mirror sheen, has its own aesthetic. The...
Little, Brown & Co, 1991. — 100 p. Old photographs depict the quaint corners and local characters of the English seaport and resort town, and trace its development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sometimes seems, at least in this century, that everyone who came to Lyme attempted to photograph it. though seldom with much artistic success. This was hardly the...
Clarion Books, 1983. — 112 p. Historical photographs show what life was like for pioneer and Indian children growing up in the American West during the late nineteenth century. Russell Freedman did an exceptional job with this book; it zeroes in on the immigrant children’s’ experience of going West as well as the indigenous Indian children’s lives before, during and after...
Brigham Young University, 2006. — 116 p. Tom Brokaw called the military men of World War II "the greatest generation." The United States dedicated a memorial to them. Documentaries and films tell their stories. Books recount their triumphs and their disappointments. The exhibition Remembering World War II: Pearl Harbor and Beyond keeps this tradition alive. For the last two...
Falk Pub. Co., 1922. — 434 p. No matter what we attempt to do, there are but two ways of doing it — the right and the wrong way. More of us adopt the wrong way because it seems easier and quicker, and it is natural to take chances. But in reality it is nothing but shortsightedness on our part, because we don't figure ahead, and perceive that the accurate method will eventually...
Rizzoli, 1996. — 214 p. Pictorial photography is noted for its artistic expressiveness, careful design and composition, and muted focus. In 1914 Clarence White (1871-1925) left Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession group, abandoned his ambitions to be a photographic illustrator, and opened the Manhatten-based Clarence H. White School of Photography. Lecturers at his school...
Museum of Modern Art, 1981. — 156 p. The invention of photography was one of the most important cultural and artistic events of the nineteenth century. Yet its origins have been studied largely from the scientific point of view. This carefully reasoned essay challenges the conventional notion that the invention of photography was fundamentally a technical achievement, without...
Sir I. Pitman & Sons, 1920. — 180 p. The object of the author in writing the present book has been not to provide a guide or text book for those desiring to practice the art of photography, but rather to give in a popular manner an outline of its operations for the reader who seeks to know something about photography, without necessarily wanting to practice it. We believe there...
Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015. — 136 p. In 1965, Wisconsin native Georgette "Dickey" Chapelle became the first female American war correspondent to be killed in action. Now, "Dickey Chapelle Under Fire" shares her remarkable story and offers readers the chance to experience Dickey's wide-ranging photography, including several photographs taken during her final patrol...
K. Paul, 1911. — 488 p. Nearly forty years have now elapsed since the first edition of Vogel's "Chemistry of Light and Photography" was issued, and no revision has been made of that work since 1883. During the last thirty years the science of photography has developed with very rapid strides. The perfection of the dry plate, the introduction of orthochromatic photography, and...
University of New Mexico Press, 1997. — 316 p. In the late 1950s, Limelight was the busiest coffeehouse in New York and the only photography gallery in the country. This is the story of Helen Gee's efforts to open Limelight and her fight to keep it afloat for seven years. The major figures in photography appear in this story - Edward Steichen, Robert Frank, W. Eugene Smith,...
Liveright, 2014. — 480 p. Biography on a grand cultural level, here is the long-awaited story of Sam Wagstaff and his indelible influence on the world of late-twentieth-century art.Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. — 180 p. Culled from an extensive, yearlong, nationwide search, this book of photographs from people twenty-five years of age and younger provides a unique and revealing look at how a new generation is seeing and interpreting the world. 25 and Under is an illuminating look at the art and sensibility of young American photographers who have...
Dover Publications, 1982. — 222 p. — (Dover Fashion and Costumes). Since the invention of photography there has not been a history of fashion completely illustrated by photographs — until this one. Photography historian Alison Gernsheim first studied Victorian and Edwardian fashion in order to be able to date photographs in her collection. Of course the photos soon proved to be...
Dover Publications, 1982. — 222 p. — (Dover Fashion and Costumes). Since the invention of photography there has not been a history of fashion completely illustrated by photographs — until this one. Photography historian Alison Gernsheim first studied Victorian and Edwardian fashion in order to be able to date photographs in her collection. Of course the photos soon proved to be...
Bonanza Books, 1962. — 247 p. The first authoritative, comprehensive study of photography from a purely aesthetic point of view, spanning its history from the daguerreotype to modern photo-reportage. With 240 superb examples of the photographer's art by Julia Margaret Cameron, Jacob Riis, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Andre Kertesz, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Edward Weston,...
2nd Edition. — Aperture, 1975. — 212 p. With a thoroughness matching that of his subject, Helmut Gernsheim has brought to light an immense amount of previously unknown material concerning both the biographical and photographic concerns of Mrs. Cameron's life. With painstaking scholarship and a sense of humor he paints an entertaining and vivid picture of this eccentric...
Dover Publications, 1969. — 214 p. It is a remarkable coincidence that while collecting material for my biography of Julia Margaret Cameron my attention was drawn to an album of another great mid-Victorian amateur photographer — Lewis Carroll. Turning its pages, I was struck first by the fertility of his imagination; later I became aware that each picture possessed a strong...
Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. — 318 p. This book was published in 1965 and so does not mention digital photography. The first 57 p. are about the technology and the last 237 are about "pictures and their makers". It is thorough, authoritative, and interesting. The authors have been recognized as the world's leading authorities on the history of photography. Helmut was born in Munich...
2nd Edition. — Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1969. — 600 p. Finest one-volume account, including contributions of every major figure — Niepce, Talbot, Daguerre, Herschel, Muybridge, Nadar, and many others. Topics include early photochemistry, daguerreotypes and calotypes, photography on the glass, gelatine dry plates, evolution of the camera, development of color photography, and other...
Revised Edition. — Thames & Hudson, 1969. — 600 p. A history of the development of photography from the eleventh century to 1914. Includes science and mechanics of photography as well as artistic achievements of particular photographers.
Abbeville Press, 1986. — 208 p. Gerster's collection of aerial landscape photographs is a triumph of aesthetics and abstraction. He treats the earth as an objet d'art, and finds small truths hidden around the planet, both in its natural design and its human amendments. Most of the images are paired in the book in a contrapuntal style that suggests themes of irony or...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.— 302 p. The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since. Drawing on a wide selection of images, author...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.— 302 p. The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since. Drawing on a wide selection of images, author...
Morrow, 2000. — 120 p. This is a stylish collection of timeless photographs from the Hulton Getty Picture Collection, perfectly complemented with classic quotations about friends and friendship from everyone from Lord Byron to Bette Davis and Walt Whitman to Richard Burton, to make a perfect tribute to that special friend.
Aperture, 1995. — 120 p. Ralph Gibson has carried on a lifelong love affair with France, passionately observing and recording the country's character through its most intimate details. Now, in The Spirit of Burgundy, the photographer gives us his unforgettable chronicle of a year in one of France's most culturally rich and visually stunning regions. A woman's profile,...
Hawthorn Books, 1976. — 328 p. A treasure-trove of detail and imagery on photographic ephemera: cameras and accessories, advertising, imagery in its many presentations, production equipment, etc. Includes chapters on collectors and where to find items. Eight appendices on how to date various items, photographica museums, history, comparative values, etc. A very useful and...
Arcadia Publishing, 2005. — 128 p. In 1915, the South Florida communities of Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Pompano, Hallandale, Deerfield, and Davie joined together to form a county. They named it Broward, in honor of the governor whose Everglades drainage program had brought them such prosperity. Today, Broward is Florida's second largest county, with 1.6 million people....
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...
Chronicle Books, 1999. — 240 p. On V.J. Day in Times Square, a sailor kissing a pretty girl he's never met before is caught in the act. Newly arrived European immigrants at Ellis Island gaze at the camera with a mix of apprehension and hope. A groundbreaking still life artfully eroticizes the curves and shadows of a twisted bell pepper. These are a few of the more than 150...
Newsweek Books, 1979. — 248 p. The Camera and Its Images is Arthur Goldsmith's fascinating, informal history of this phenomenon, the story of the amazing development of technology and human communication. From its pre-history to its present, from Louis Mande Jacques Daguerre's daguerreotype to twentieth-century holography, from the portraits of Nadar to masterworks by Stieglitz...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 158 p. On the morning of July 30, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park, established by an act of Congress only eleven years earlier. No sitting president had ever traveled this far west. Arthur’s host and primary guide would be Philip H. Sheridan, the...
Earth Aware, 2008. — 111 p. Bound figures huddle in strangely orderly rows. Soaking wet, robed acolytes sweep a staircase. A naked man, chained, faces an endless horizon. Oddly serene, a head bursts into flames. Does Misha Gordin point his camera outward to the existing world or turn it inward toward his soul? Is he taking photographs of existing reality, or creating his own...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. — 293 p. The revealing story of an influential educator who helped shape the educational, social, and cultural landscape of Newfoundland. Reviewers elsewhere have already called Robert Edwards Holloway: Newfoundland Educator, Scientist, Photographer, 1874–1904 a labour of love, and so it is. Ruby Gough first encountered Holloway when...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 252 p. — (Oxford History of Art) From the first misty `heliograph' taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz, to the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and Victor Burgin, the history of photography is a record of dazzling and penetrating images....
J. Wertheimer and Co., 1860. — 44 p. In submitting the following Catalogue of warranted Photographic Apparatus, of pure chemicals, and of all necessary appliances connected with the art of Photography, Mr. Greenish wishes it to be distinctly understood, by all who may favour him with their patronage, that he will not only advise as to the most fitting form of Apparatus suitable...
New York Inst. of Photography, 1920. — 546 p. While a work of this size can be in no way exhaustive, the editor has tried to retain as far as possible those details which explain the fundamental principles of motion picture photography to the average worker and at the same time serve as a guide and reference in his daily routine. No attempt has been made to cover the details of...
Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2012. — 280 p. In any decade the work of only a very few artists offers a template for understanding the culture and ideas of their time. Photographer Diane Arbus is one of these rare artists, and in this book Frederick Gross returns Arbus’s work to the moment in which it was produced and first viewed to reveal its broader significance for analyzing and...
Globe Pequot Press, 1985. — 264 p. News photos from the past 25 years published in the Boston Globe are collected here by Pulitzer Prizewinning photographer Grossfeld. The black-and-white shots dramatically depict historical and human-interest stories: John F. Kennedy on the eve of his presidential election; the Beatles in concert; portraits of Martin Luther King Jr., Jane...
Schocken, 2007. — 296 p. With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber — adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after — tells her story in her own words and photographs. Gruber’s life has been extraordinary...
Abbeville, 1987. — 276 p. YA Students of art and art history will be fascinated by this survey of photogra phy, the debts it owes to some 20th- Century movements (surrealism, ex pressionism, etc.), and the contributions it has made to others (pop art, etc.). While the text is a bit dense for YAs, the book's more than 100 plates provide in sight into the authors' thesis and into...
G. Bell and Sons, 1907. — 274 p. In the many excellent handbooks on the technical side of photography, the amateur may find all the information necessary to make him a skilful craftsman; but guidance is not so readily available when he wishes to go a step further, and to picture his personal impression of Nature’s moods. Such an aspiration should engage sympathy, if only...
Taplinger, 1977. — 136 p. Here is a beautiful book and a stirring tribute to the men and women who underwent incredible difficulties and took exhaustive pains to record wildlife by camera. With bulky, slow, and primitive equipment, they spread around the globe making long treks and patiently spending many long hours in an effort to capture shots of various wildlife in its...
One Eyeland, 2014. — 285 P. . Annual One Eyeland Award: . Photographer of the Year. Amateur photographer of the Year. Student photographer of the Year. Art director of the Year. Art buyer of the Year. Photo rep of the Year. Ad agency of the Year. Photography book publisher of the Year. Cgi artist / Company of the Year. Retoucher artist / Company of the Year. Photography school...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. — 288 p. Nadar (1820-1910), whose real name was Felix Tournachon, was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in 19th-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over--as a bohemian writer, journalist, romantic utopian, caricaturist, photographer, and scientific innovator. This book catalogues nearly 200 of his...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. — 416 p. The Waking Dream is a phenomenal chronicle of the history of photography. My used copy appears to be in excellent condition. I bought this book because a friend loaned me a copy, and I knew that I had to have my own. Some of these photos are historical gems. Others record dark moments in American history; however, photography provides...
American Photographic Publishing Co., 1920. — 340 p. To tell a photographer how to compose his pictures is like telling a musician how to compose music, an author how to write a novel or an actor how to act a part. Such things can only grow out of the fulness and experience of life. Yet the musician must learn harmony and Counterpoint, the novelist must know the rules of...
Canongate, 1981. — 100 p. The publication of this book is a beginning rather than an end. In the five years since work was started, Thomas Keith has become much better known as one of Scotland's most talented Victorian amateur photographers. Examples of his work have been published throughout the world and an exhibition of his finest pictures has toured the United Kingdom.
Voigtlander & Sohn A.G., 1900 - 1909. — 146 p. Since the publication of our last price list, a large number of innovations have been introduced by us. Among photographic Lenses the Heliar, Dynar, and Oxyn series have become immensely popular in the photographic world. We have also provided the serious worker with a useful addition to his outfit in the shape of our new Light...
The Ilex Press Ltd, 2012. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78157-001-2. Explore a world of cool, quirky, and collectable vintage cameras. The huge growth of sales in Lomography-style plastic-lens cameras shows that interest in, and love of, cheap, fun, cameras has never been stronger. But the few models that are still manufactured are only the tip of the iceberg, with hundreds of...
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1984. — 264 p. A biography of the black photographer who has received acclaim for his prints of Harlem. When the "Harlem on My Mind" show opened at the Metropolitan Museum in 1968, the photographs of James Van Der-Zce were a revelation, and not simply because they showed black people of comfort, beauty, and pride, whom few Americans knew anything about....
Scholastic, 1995. — 100 p. This book gives a pretty good recounting of the Civil War, albeit an overview in 90+ pages, for one to read. I felt as though the beginnings of the war, namely the states' rights issues, could have been made a bit more clearly. While later on in the book a passage noted the change as the war progressed from states' rights to the issue of slavery, the...
Cassell and Co., 1905. — 856 p. The Book of Photography has been prepared at the request of many readers of my smaller books on the subject who have expressed a wish for a comprehensive treatise. My own practice in Photography dates back to the time when the operator prepared each plate for his own use ; first by a tedious process of cleaning the glass, next by dexterously...
Abrams, 2016. — 240 p. Slim Aarons: Women explores the central subject of Slim Aarons’s career — the extraordinary women from the upper echelons of high society, the arts, fashion, and Hollywood. The book presents the women who most influenced Aarons’s life and work — and the other remarkable personalities he photographed along the way, including Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy,...
Aperture, 1988. — 77 p. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Towards a bigger picture II" at the Victoria and Albert Museum 30th November 1987-15th January 1988
The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. — 159 p. The Picture Man was Paul Buchanan (ca. 1910-1987), an itinerant photographer who, on foot, on horseback, and by car, wandered four North Carolina mountain counties from 1920 until about 1951. He had stopped making pictures for more than thirty years when Ann Hawthorne, a photographer living in the mountains, heard about...
New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004. — 150 p. Known as a highly entertaining and controversial filmmaker, John Waters is also an artist and photographer. This book surveys some of his still photographic works and presents early underground films, sketchbooks and source material for the first time. I'm a big fan of Waters' ongoing adventures in the highfalutin art world, so of...
Amphoto Books, 2013. — 224 p. In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners, shares 50 iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders, along with fascinating, thoughtful, often humorous stories about how the images were made. From his famously controversial portrait of President George H.W....
Amphoto Books, 2013. — 247 p. In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners, shares 50 iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders, along with fascinating, thoughtful, often humorous stories about how the images were made. From his famously controversial portrait of President George H.W....
Penn State University Press, 1996. — 260 p. As photography grew more popular following its invention in 1839, its admirers did not understand how a medium that rendered shapes and textures in exquisite detail could fail to render them in realistic color. Also disappointing was the tendency of the captured images to fade over time. Photographers, ever eager to please their...
Dawbarn and Ward, 1896. — 120 p. If you wish to be an all-round slip-shod dabbler, try every different make of plate, paper, developer, and toning bath, that each of your friends recommends — of course before mastering any of the technical details of photography. But, on the other hand, if you wish to become a clean and careful worker, capable of producing excellent results,...
Graphis Press, 1982. — 256 p. An annual for the professional photographer, designer and advertising man. Photographis is the best of last year's harvest of trend-setting photographic creativity - on a worldwide scale... Markus Kutter's preface to this volume is a critical analysis of commissioned photography, which in his opinion is less concerned with the object it portrays...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 395 p. Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of photography, this collection offers essays, interviews, and theoretical reflections...
Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1907. — 80 p. The Little Books on photography of which this is one are the outcome of The Practical Lessons for Beginners which have appeared every week since July, 1904, in The Amateur Photographer, and are still continuing. The unparalleled expression of appreciation with which those “Lessons” have met leaves little room for doubt that there are very...
3rd Edition. — Routledge, 2017. — 609 p. The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation. Covering the major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic...
Focal Press, 2014. — 256 p. This groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas focuses on imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world. Through interviews with more than 40 key artists, this book explores a diverse group of curious experimentalists who have propelled the medium’s evolution by visualizing their subject...
Focal Press, 2014. — 256 p. This groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas focuses on imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world. Through interviews with more than 40 key artists, this book explores a diverse group of curious experimentalists who have propelled the medium’s evolution by visualizing their subject...
Alberta, 1989. — 84 p. Catalogue of the exhibition "C. W. Mathers' vision", 21 January - 2 April, 1989 at the Provincial Museum of Alberta presented by the Provincial Archives of Alberta. This exhibition and accompanying catalogue constitute the first indepth assemblage and examination of the work of Charles Weslev Mathers, Edmonton's first resident photographer. The well known...
Photo-Beacon Co., 1901. — 120 p. Photography has made, during the last few years, both in Europe and in America, very great advances from the purely artistic or picture-making point of view, and many who practice photography, and who possess, though untrained, the true artistic instinct, are desirous of learning how their technical skill in the use of the camera and lens may be...
New York Graphic Society, 1974. — 168 p. This book contains photographs of military subjects from the wars of the nineteenth century: they include the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the Franco-Prussian and Boer Wars. Each picture is fully described, with information on the action depicted and details of the earliest publication of the picture. The text discusses the...
Offices of „The Studio", 1908. — 253 p. The book provides an overview of the work of the best photographic artists in Europe and the United States of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The progress that has taken place during the last two or three decades in the art of photography is one of the many remarkable phenomena of the nineteenth century. In part, at all events,...
Offices of „The Studio", 1908. — 253 p. The album contains more than a hundred artistic color and monochrome photographs. In considering the recent important developments which have taken place in photography, more especially as regards the question of colour, the fact should not be lost sight of that, notwithstanding the introduction of many improved processes during recent...
Offices of „The Studio", 1908. — 266 p. In considering the recent important developments which have taken place in photography, more especially as regards the question of colour, the fact should not be lost sight of that, notwithstanding the introduction of many improved processes during recent years, colour -photography is still in its infancy. It is, therefore, the Editor's...
Chelsea House, 1997. — 152 p. — (The World 100 Years Ago). In a time before air travel — in fact, before the airplane was invented — Burton Holmes (I870-1958) made it possible fur masses of Americans to see and experience main of the strange and wonderful countries of the world. Probably the greatest world-traveler in the first half of the 20th century, Holmes also was...
Viking Studio, 2002. — 150 p. At the turn of the last century, there was a sense of dissatisfaction within both the American and European photographic communities. In 1902, an avant-garde band of photographers, led by Alfred Stieglitz, began to champion their work as art, rather than as a mere form of documentation, in an exhibit at the National Arts Club in New York. They...
Crown Publishers, 1955. — 272 p. This could be the most complete story of Brady's life and work. Biography and many published photographs. Mathew Brady was an enigma. He kept no journal and there are even very few letters written by him (although his signature appears on several that were written by someone else). He was a great self-promoter, so what he says must be taken with...
Doubleday, 1966. — 360 p. "Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Forgotten Photographer" appears to have been meticulously researched, with Horan including numerous facsimile copies of original documents involving O'Sullivan; an impressive feature seldom found it a biographical survey of this nature. However: although the book is loaded with very good in-depth information, it also...
Andrew Duthie, 1867. — 92 p. The charms of Killarney consist in the varied graces of foliage, the grandeur of encompassing mountains, the number of green and rocky islands, the singular, fantastic character of the island rocks, the delicate elegance of the shore, the perpetual occurrence of bays, and in the wonderful variety produced by the combination of these, which,...
Richard Griffin And Company, 1857. — 370 p. The opportunity offered in preparing a fifth edition of the Manual of Photography for the press, has been embraced for the purpose of making several important alterations in the arrangement of the divisions of the subject. By the plan now adopted, each particular phenomena is placed in the clearest point of view, and it is believed...
S.D. Humphrey, 1852. — 320 p. In a country where the Heliographic Science is exerting such powerful influence as it is now creating in America, it is highly desirable that the means for pushing investigation should be within the reach of every ambitious mind. The world is indebted to our country for the most eminently successful Daguerreotypes, and we should be also foremost in...
Photo-beacon, 1897. — 74 p. Nearly thirty years ago, while I was in business in Montreal, I took into my employ a German artist, William Raphael, who had the audacity, as I then considered it, to tell me that I knew absolutely nothing about lighting the human face. At first I strongly resented his plainly spoken opinion. At last I believed him, and by and by I eagerly studied...
J.B. Lippincott Company, 1920. — 434 p. Airplane photography had its birth, and passed through a period of feverish development, in the Great War. Probably to many minds it figures as a purely military activity. Such need not be the case, for the application of aerial photography to mapping and other peace-time problems promises soon to quite overshadow its military origin. It...
J.B. Lippincott company, 1920. — 434 p. Airplane photography had its birth, and passed through a period of feverish development, in the Great War. Probably to many minds it figures as a purely military activity. Such need not be the case, for the application of aerial photography to mapping and other peace-time problems promises soon to quite overshadow its military origin. It...
Facts on File, 1997. — 152 p. Vlathew Brady and the Civil War; Lewis Hine and child labor; Dorothea Lange and the Great Depression-the history of American photography is American history itself. These photographers not only recorded events but also influenced policy and public opinion through their work. They broadened the perspective of the average American by providing a...
University Press of Kentucky, 2001. — 352 p. Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century, yet until now there has never been a biography of this fascinating, gifted artist. Born into a New York Jewish family with a tradition of service, Ulmann sought to portray and document individuals from various groups that she feared would vanish...
Barrons, 1981. — 128 p. The innovative eye of Man Ray explored the outer limits of photography with profound brilliance, wit and originality, transcending the medium as no photographer has done before or since. More than any other figure he freed photography from the bonds of equipment and literal-minded technique. Often he would shed his camera altogether as in the creation of...
Phaidon, 2001. — 132 p. — (Phaidon 55's) This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Josef Sudek - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer. Josef Sudek (1896-1976) is as closely associated with Prague as Eugene Atget...
Amphoto Art, 1998. — 232 p. Photographic images supply the visual history of the twentieth century, giving us access to events "as they happened," or at least as the photographer would have us believe they happened. In this series of connected essays, Ian Jeffrey offers a parallel history of the development of photography, linking the images to the society that generated them...
The Inland Printer Company, 1896. — 200 p. IN preparing- this work, it has been my aim to present such information that a person inexperienced in photographic operations might be enabled to obtain from it an intelligent conception of the methods used for making line and half-tone engravings. If therefore details have been entered into which may to some seem superfluous, it...
American Heritage, 1968. — 356 p. A collection of rare photographs of the early years of the US, compiled by the editors of American Heritage. Handsomely printed, with full-page and full-spread reproductions of the images. Subjects include portraits--early Americans, Native Americans, kids, groups, street shots; architectural--farm houses, sod houses, early architecture; people...
Mariners Museum, 2000. — 184 p. Photographer Edwin Levick, who was considered the official photographer of the New York Yacht Club, captures the spirit of the public moments of America's Cup races and also the quieter times behind the scenes. His b&w photographs, together with the text by Jobson (author and television sailing commentator), provide a picture of the turbulent...
Aperture, 2004. — 324 p. From Matthew Brady to Cindy Sherman, 150 artists are represented in this new, combined volume of Photography Speaks, spanning the entire history of the medium. This compendium contains biographical information and an original statement from each artist, accompanied by an example of their work. A favorite with photographers and requisite course material...
Downey, 1895. — 330 p. The strides that photography has made during the last few years, due to the patient and earnest work of a large body of experimentalists, have not been an unmixed blessing; the production of sensitive plates and other materials at cheap rates, and the possibility which exists to-day of buying everything ready prepared, have induced thousands to take up...
University of California Press, 1997. — 400 p. During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work — which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, and almost every other popular magazine published in the United...
Graphic Arts Center, 1977. – 164 p. John Muir’s America is an artful blending of forty-eight color photographs with twenty original Muir drawings and 40,000 words of highly readable text. John Muir’s America is a luminous portrait of the life and vision of John Muir – naturalist, explorer, mountain climber, writer, farmer, political activist and founder of the Sierra Club — a...
Head of Zeus, 2018. — 558 p. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the politics of peace, and the lives of men and...
Head of Zeus, 2018. — 558 p. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the politics of peace, and the lives of men and...
Harry N. Abrams, 1987. — 176 p. These classic modern art and science photographs are the work of Harold edgerton, inventor of the modern electronic flash or strobe. His quest to reveal what the unaided eye cannot see revolutionised photography. Inventor of the strobe flash and a pioneer of stop-action photography, Edgerton literally stops time in these remarkable photographs. A...
Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1989. — 64 p. I inherited the storytelling gene from my Russian father. Photography is a learned skill, acquired through hard work and good teachers. I have always liked pictures that suggest something more then what is pictured. I like stories that undermine one’s assumptions. Tremors From The Faultline, the book, grew out of a series of black...
Boston College Museum of Art, 1994. — 88 p. Although Aaron Siskind's central position in American aesthetic photography has been examined in previous exhibitions and publications, this exhibition is the first to link his earlier documentary work with his later, purely aesthetic efforts, and to focus on Siskind's pivotal role as a teacher and pedagogical theorist in America. The...
Viking, 1991. — 328 p. This volume presents the collected work and biography of Alexander Gardner, one of the premiere photographic chroniclers of American history, and in a sense the first photojournalist. Initially a student and partner of Matthew Brady, Gardner broke away in the middle of the Civil War to found his own studio. Gardner's pictures from the battlefields were...
Rizzoli, 1991. — 286 p. This volume presents six decades of photographs by internationally known photographer Horst P. Horst, whose signature style was forged in the heady atmospheres of Berlin and Paris in the 1920's and 1930's. Horst's work includes innovative fashion photography for Vogue, portraits of luminaries, and the estates of Europe's aristocracy for House &...
Lerner, 1996. — 136 p. Keller's biography discusses the great photojournalist's life and work and shows how Bourke-White captured the crucial events of the mid-twentieth century in black-and-white pictures that have become universal images. She photographed Stalin and Gandhi, prisoners at Buchenwald, miners in South Africa. She documented the thrilling power of industrial...
The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995. — 436 p. Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer who gained fame for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Many of his works are in permanent museum collections and have been the subject of retrospectives at institutions such as the Metropolitan...
The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995. — 436 p. Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer who gained fame for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Many of his works are in permanent museum collections and have been the subject of retrospectives at institutions such as the Metropolitan...
Addison Gallery of American Art, 1999. — 60 p. In 1936 Beaumont Newhall, then curator at The Museum of Modem Art, wrote Photography: A Short History . Photography was not yet considered an academic discipline and very linkhad been published on the subject or its history. In that first slim volume Newhall discussed only a few of the major practitioners of the medium. In the...
The University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 233 p. In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic comparable to the infamous photo by Nick Ut of a Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack. Both images serve as...
Harry N. Abrams, 1985. — 248 p. Over 50 years of Kessel's career as a photojournalist, working for such magazines as Fortune and Life, are recounted in an anecdotal text. Some of his best-known photo-essays, from his trip up the Yangtze in 1946 to his study of Rome in 1962, are reproduced here.
Loyola University Press, 1966. — 128 p. Only a short ten years ago Algimantas Kezys took his first photograph with an old-fashioned Rolleiflex. When he was ordained in 1961, his parents gave him a Hasselblad as an expression of their love for him and for the priesthood. The World's Fair and European pictures shown here were taken with the Hasselblad camera. All of the European...
American photographic publishing, 1936. — 296 p. Since time immemorial, pictures of notables and important events have been made for the purpose of saving for future generations some representation of life in a given era. Today, through the development of the modern newspaper and improvement in photographic equipment, there has come into being a new field of work known as press...
Museum of Modern Art, 1994. — 212 p. In this book, published in conjunction with a Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition of the same title, Kismaric has selected 150 duotone photographs that build a chronology of American photography of politicians, from the carefully staged portraits of the 19th century to more contemporary images, generated by motor-driven 35 mm cameras that...
Eastman Kodak Company, 1925. — 36 p. A guide to taking good photos with the Kodak and Brownie Cameras. It is only when we look over the old Kodak album — or albums, rather — that we realize the changes and the importance of filling the new ones. There’s Dick, chubby and rosy, as he trudged off for his first day of school, full of a strange excitement and importance. And here he...
Eastman Kodak Co., 1900. — 176 p. "How to Make Good Pictures" - the title of this book, explains its mission. We can only add that in it all photographic processes have been reduced to the simplest form consistent with good results — complex theories or untried experiments have not been introduced. We have given prominence to the Kodak system of picture making because time has...
Eastman Kodak, 1900. — 36 p. The chief end of photography, from the amateur’s standpoint, is home portraiture. He may revel in the delights of out-door work ; may record with enthusiasm the events of the summer vacation and snap-shot every point of interest on his travels, but to make portraits — portraits which will be like- nesses, which will be artistic and natural — such is...
Eastman Kodak, 1909. — 40 p. First came man — and then pictures. No matter what the race, — Egyptian, Aztec, true Mongolian, or nomadic Indian, — there were pictures, ages of pictures, before there was a written language. The rude drawing of stone upon stone, of pigment upon birch bark, or the laborious carving with a whale's tooth upon wood all prove that in man there is a...
Kodak Press, 1903. — 36 p. There was a two-fold object in our offer of $4000.00 in prizes for the best Kodak pictures. First to demonstrate the rapid progress made by Kodakers in the photographic field, and second to get together a colie&ion of Kodak pictures which would prove a guide and an inspiration to all photographic devotees. This little book will show how well both...
Eastman Kodak, 1905. — 204 p. Our first object in the publication of this book is to make photography easier for the amateur. Our second is to show him the way to new pleasures in picture making. In its compilation we have endeavored to cover fully and clearly every point on which he should have information. With equal care we have avoided useless discussion of theory and have...
Taschen, 1994. - 756 p. In English, German. and fr. languages 1000 Nudes offers a cross-section of the history of nude photography, ranging from the earliest nude daguerrotypes and ethnographic nude photographs to experimental nude photography. The period of time spanned by this work is from 1839 to roughly 1939, from the medium’s infancy to the end of the classic modernist...
Britannica Books, 1962. — 200 p. Mathew Brady's name shines brightly, not only as a pioneer photographer, but also as an invaluable recorder of history. In his own time, Brady was famous for the technical advances he contributed to photography, as well as for the pictures he took. His striking photographs won many medals at home and abroad. To his fashionable galleries in New...
Temple University Press, 1994. — 236 p. As the first periodical to present news stories through photographs, Life appealed to middle-class Americans as they faced the conflicts and the rapid changes of Cold War society. This book considers how layout, composition, lighting, framing, and subject matter influenced Life's representation of domestic ideology.
Greenwood Press, 1999. — 368 p. — (Art Reference Collection). American women have made significant contributions to the field of photography for well over a century. This bibliography compiles more than 1,070 sources for over 600 photographers from the 1880s to the present. As women's role in society changed, so did their role as photographers. In the early years, women often...
Henry Holt, 1998. — 168 p. The noted photojournalist draws on her archive of photographs of the most important Jewish writers of the twentieth century to present an album of ninety pictures accompanied by an assessment of their significance.
D.R. Godine, 1980. — 136 p. The Writer's Image assembles, for the first time, a lively selection of more than one hundred of Krementz's best portraits, reproduced in a style that does justice to both her art and the personalities portrayed. Evocative, powerful, playful, and empathetic, these portraits arc vital and permanent notations of our community of letters.
Five Corners, 1993. — 88 p. In this volume, ten photographers share their visions & deepest held beliefs about people & the world around us through their craft -- photography: Roger Archibald, Susan Hirschmann, Marilyn Iannarelli, John Kreul, George McHendry, Joe Rife, Gordon Schalla, Michael Schwartz, Linda Solomon & Terry Tambara. Their images are engaging & their thoughts...
The Association, 1985. — 466 p. CPE I was ICA's first response to the pressures of a world ever-increasing in specialization. The move to create a new annual entirely dedicated to photography was successful and rewarding in this day of burgeoning amounts of information about narrowing topics. The world's visual communicators have become an even more specialized group in the two...
2nd Edition. — Time, 1995. — 200 p. Since the invention of photography, the camera's eye has reported, chronicled and even influenced history. A new kind of journalism- photojournalism- reinvented reality, allowing the public for the first time to witness events just as they happened. Time, the pre-eminent news magazine for more than 70 years, has helped shape that process....
New York: Bantam Books, 1964. — 215 pgs. The female nude — magical, erotic, aesthetic — has been modeled and painted since prehistory. It was inevitable that she should become a favorite subject of photography. This book visits the work of Delacroix and Durieu, Muybridge and Eakins, Charles Shenk, the Photosessionists, Arnold Genthe, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, Emmanual...
Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1903. — 110 p. — (The Amateur Photographer Library). In two parts; with one hundred and twenty-six illustrations and diagrams The reader is invited to remember that this book is only to be regarded as an introduction to the vast field of portraiture and figure-studies. With set purpose, we have in the first part limited our studies to head and...
2nd Edition. — Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. — 106 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of A. Horsley Hinton Practical Introduction to "Bromide Printing" Developing and Toning Bromide Prints A Method of Printing Tinted Borders round Bromide Prints The...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. — 108 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Colonel J. Gale, F.R.P.S. Practical Introduction to Bromide Enlarging The Optics of Enlargement Finishing Bromide Enlargements Enlarged Negatives A Method of Developing Bromide Enlargements
Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. — 128 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Will A. Cadby Preliminary Notes on Lantern Slides Introduction to Lantern Slide Making Introduction to Toning Lantern Slides Molybdenum Toning Process Some Methods of Toning. Lantern...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. — 124 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Alex. Keighley Practical Instructions about Trimming and Mounting General Principles of Mounting Maxims about Mounting and Framing Mounting Papers Bound Portfolio Prints Shaded Mounts by...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. — 128 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Frederick H. Evans Practical Introduction to the use of P.O.P. Practical Notes on Gold Toning Double Tones — Cause and Remedy Over-Printed P.O.P. Glazing a n d Matting P.O.P. Mounting...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 126 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Ernest R. Ashton The Factorial, Timing, or Watkins' Eikrononieter Method of Development Notes on the Timing System Ferrous Oxalate Factorial Development Control in Development Errors of...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 130 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Robert Demachy Introduction to Intensification and Reduction Local Intensification Cerium Peroxide Reducer Intensification with Mercuric Chloride and Ferrous Oxalate Notes on the...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 144 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Frank M. Sutcliffe Introduction to the Use of the Hand Camera Hints on Hand-Camera Work High Speed Shutter Photography Hints to Hand-Camera Workers Optical Matters concerning Hand-Camera...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 132 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Charles Job Introduction to Platinotype Printing Notes on Platinotype Pictorial Notes Preparation of Platinotype Paper Chemical Jottings Faults and Failures Platinotype Pointers...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 140 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert Perhaps it may be as well to explain to the reader that the illustrations in this number are to be taken simply as examples of the types of scenery in the various districts. They should not be regarded as...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 124 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Reginald Craigie Introduction to Landscape Photography Landscape Photography Cloud and Sky in Landscape Hint s on Selection and Arrangement Landscape with Figures WherePhotography falls...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 124 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Arthur Burchett Introduction to Architectural Photography Notes on Architectural Photography Notes on Interior Work Hint s to Architectural Photographers Architectural Telephotography...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 128 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of J. Craig Annan Practical Introduction to Carbon Printing Carbon Transparencies Carbon Process for Winter Evenings An Effective Actinometer Carbon Wrinkles Chemical Aspect of Carbon...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 120 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of J.B.B. Wellington Preliminary Note on Retouching Introduction to Retouching Retouching Supplementary Hints on Retouching Retouching Landscape Negatives Miscellaneous Hints on Retouching...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. — 124 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Henry Speyer Photography of Snow Landscape Photography in Autumn, Winter and Spring Pictorial Value of Mist Architectural Work in Winter Pictorial Considerations for Winter Workers...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 120 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Bernard Alfieri Preliminary Questions and Answers The Principles of Composition Notes of Composition in Landscape Notes on Composition Composition in Painting and Photography Thoughts on...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 122 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Viscount Maitland Animal Photography Zoological Gardens Photography Notes on Animal Photography Portraiture of Animals Photographing Animals in Captivity Dogs and Cats Photographing...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 124 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Charles Moss A Few Notes of Gum-bichromate Printing in Gum-bichromate Practical Notes on Gum Printing Uncertainty in Gum Printing A Method of Procedure Notes and Jotting (Bicolour Printing)
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 120 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Mrs. Cadby Preliminary Note on the word "Flora" Flower Photography for Beginners Suggestions on Flower and Fruit Photography Riverside Flower Photography Flower Photography Supplementary...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 130 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Furley Lewis Preliminary Note — What is a Portrait? Introduction to Portrait Photography Portraiture in Ordinary Rooms Exposure in Portraiture Portraiture Notes Miss Hilda Stevenson's...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 116 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Harold Baker Introduction to Orthochromatic Photography How to Commence Work with Orthochromatic Plates Orthochromatic Photography Orthochromatism in Pictorial Work
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 124 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of William Rawlings Picture Making Notes and Jottings for Picture Makers The Pictorial Principles of Groups and Genre Figure Studies with the Hand Camera Figure Work from a Painter's Point...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 120 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of P. J. Mortimer Introduction to Pictorial Seaside Photography with an Inexpensive Hand Camera Photography of the Sea Harbour Photography Photography of Objects on the Beach River...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 118 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Percy Lewis Introduction to Cloud Negative Making and Printing Easy Introduction to Cloud Printing Sundry Notes (re Clouds and Skies) Combination Printing Combination Enlarging Factors...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 120 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of J. C. Warburg Artificial Light Photography Flashlight Photography Photography by Artificial Light Out-door Photography by Night Failure in Flashlight Work Essentials of Successful Night...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. — 116 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of W.A.I. Hensler Introduction to Photographic Optics Straight Lines Refraction Refraction through Prism Focal Length Dispersion Achromatism Chromatic Aberration, etc.
Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. — 112 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Charles H.L. Emanuel Easy Introduction to Lantern Optics Objective, Flatness of Field Brightness, Achromatism, Focal Length of Objective Estimating Size of Screen Picture How t o Select...
Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. — 120 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of A.H. Blake Telephotography Telephoto Calculations by Simple Arithmetic Magnification Exposure Magnification Graduating Telephotography and Mountaineering
Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. — 112 p. — (Library Series). A series of 30 thematic collections published in London between 1903 and 1906, edited by Frederick Charles Lambert The Pictorial Work of Ward Muir Easy Introduction to to Photographic Chemistry for Beginners Chemical Words and Phrases Explained The Chemistry of the Dry Plate List of Chemicals
Prestel, 2002. — 136 p. From Daguerre's early experiments, Fenton's photographic documentation of the Crimea, and Brady's portrayals of America's Civil War, to Muybridge's galloping horses or Julia Margaret Cameron's romantic portraits - Icons of Photography: The 19th Century presents the geniuses who helped transform a scientific discovery into a means of artistic expression....
2nd Edition. — The Getty Conservation Institute, 2003. — 308 p. More than thirty years of continuing research into the preservation of photographic collections have led to a better understanding of the fragility of these images and the means by which to preserve them. A useful resource for the photographic conservator, conservation scientist, curator, as well as professional...
2nd Edition. — The Getty Conservation Institute, 2009. — 368 p. In recent years, interest in old photographs has grown significantly among a broad public, from collectors, conservators, and archivists to amateurs seeking to preserve precious family albums. Although the medium of photography is barely 150 years old, its relatively brief history has witnessed the birth of a wide...
Holiday House, 1999. — 150 p. Presents the photographs taken by William Henry Jackson from 1869 to 1893, discussing his life and how his work captured and introduced the American West to the public. William Henry Jackson's photographs provided the first glimpse of the American frontier to most Americans. Arriving west only one month after the completion of the transcontinental...
3rd Edition. — G. Knight and Sons, 1855. — 48 p. Since the publication of my former treatise, Photography has undergone but little change; experience, however, has improved some of the details, and the result of these modifications may be found useful to amateurs in this delightful art. There are few inventions which have been carried to sucli perfection in so short a space of...
Herald-Mail Co., 2004. — 216 p. When we first discussed the idea of a local history book, we thought it was a good fit for The Herald-Mail Co. Our book essentially was the same thing: Local information, in the form of your photos, memories and stories. Instead of our usual newspaper format, we entered a new venue, that of hardback book publishing. When it was all said and done,...
University of California Press, 2001. — 367 p. This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to...
Little, Brown, 1996. — 200 p. A celebrated, highly stylized photographer of rock stars shooting Olympic athletes? That apparent anomaly seems just right when the photographer in question is Leibovitz, whose portraiture has always managed to capture the inner turmoil lurking beneath outward calm. Wisely, she chose to shoot her athletes not in Atlanta, surrounded by hoopla, but...
Random House, 2008. — 248 p. The celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz, author of the New York Times bestselling book A Photographer's Life, provides the stories, and technical description, of how some of her most famous images came to be. Starting in 1974, with her coverage of Nixon's resignation, and culminating with her controversial portraits of Queen Elizabeth II early...
Paris: Larousse, 1998. — 296 p. — ISBN: 2-03-523210-4. En près d'un siècle et demi, la photographie s'est imposée au monde. À partir des procédés mis au point par Nicéphore Niépce et Louis Daguerre en France, par William Talbot en Angleterre, des milliers d'images ont été produites, reproduites et diffusées en une formidable conquête, traduite par une exploration de la planète...
Norton, 2002. — 488 p. Long Time Coming is derived from the 145,000 photographs made between 1935 and 1943 by a team of now-famous photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration (FSA), whose ranks included Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Evans. We are all familiar with the iconic images of poverty that are usually associated with the project....
Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. — 136 p. People Knitting is a charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consuming, craft of knitting. When women posed with their knitting in the earliest nineteenth-century photographs, it demonstrated their virtue and skill as homemakers. Later, knitting became fashionable among the wealthy...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. — 136 p. People Knitting is a charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consuming, craft of knitting. When women posed with their knitting in the earliest nineteenth-century photographs, it demonstrated their virtue and skill as homemakers. Later, knitting became fashionable among the wealthy...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2018. — 136 p. Although people have fished for food since the dawn of time, fishing today is one of the most popular pastimes in the world — an estimated 220 million people worldwide are recreational anglers, according to the World Bank. While many enjoy the Zen of waiting patiently for a strike in the great outdoors, for others, at least judging...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2018. — 136 p. Although people have fished for food since the dawn of time, fishing today is one of the most popular pastimes in the world — an estimated 220 million people worldwide are recreational anglers, according to the World Bank. While many enjoy the Zen of waiting patiently for a strike in the great outdoors, for others, at least judging...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2018. — 150 p. Love is in the air as Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey take on humankind's oldest pastime: kissing. In racy candids, humorous vintage postcards, and snapshots taken on the sly, couples from the Victorian era through the Swinging Sixties smooch, canoodle, neck, and spoon. The collected photographs are sweet, sincere, and saucy,...
Life Books, 1996. — 200 p. LIFE Sixty Years is a look at photos from LIFE Magazine's archives from their beginning in 1936 through 1996. I am a very visual person. I need to see something to truly understand it. When reading certain books, I often have Google images open just to help me get a better idea of what's being described. I read the Illustrated edition of The DaVinci...
Little Brown & Co, 1987. — 326 p. This overview of the past fifty years reflected in the pages of "Life" magazine ranges in tone from the sublime to the frivolous in a pictorial re-creation of recent history. Wainwright spent most of his adult life working for LIFE , and his history of the enormously influential and popular magazine reflects both his devotion to and knowledge...
Time-Life Books, 1999. — 168 p. — (Life Album: The Year in Pictures). America's most noted chronicler brings you a year to remember: the glory, the wonders and — this is 1998, after all — that unforgettable weather. We have seen John Glenn rise again and Bill Clinton fall again; watched the power and grace of two of basebands strongest men; and lost some good souls who were...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 177 p. Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied — a German naturalist — and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832–34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors — designed to...
Little, Brown, 1996. — 204 p. This collection is a showcase for photographs that should astonish, amaze, delight and amuse, elict compassion and alert us to history. From a panorama spanning from the 1930s to the 1990s, former "Life" picture editor John Loengard has selected 120 of his favourite images, both colour and black and white, and several stories covered in the past...
Little, Brown, 1988. — 198 p. This collection is a showcase for photographs that should astonish, amaze, delight and amuse, elict compassion and alert us to history. From a panorama spanning from the 1930s to the 1990s, former "Life" picture editor John Loengard has selected 120 of his favourite images, both colour and black and white, and several stories covered in the past...
Vendome Press, 2005. — 222 p. "John Loengard, one of the great Life magazine photographers, sums up his fifty-year career in this volume. His subjects include movie stars, writers, politicians, artists, and other photographers, as well as normal people engaged in a host of extraordinary activities - or, rather, typical activities rendered unforgettable and compelling by the...
Summit Books, 1980. — 228 p. The World As It Was is a stunning worldwide documentary, a kaleidoscopic portrait of life from 1865 to 1921, presented through photographs that are distinguished not only by their artistry and sensitivity but by the excellence of the reproductions — crystal-clear prints made from the original stereoscopic negatives. It is the remarkable clarity of...
Routledge, 2006. — 214 p. Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the phenomenon of photography. The introduction and development...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0892363681; ISBN13: 978-0892363681. In the Getty Museum's collection are nearly two thousand daguerreotypes, including such notable examples as John Plumbe's The United States Capitol, one of the earliest known photographs of the building; an 1849 image of Edgar Allan Poe; and the documentation of the first public...
University of California Press, 2003. — 368 p. Jack and Jackie sailing at Hyannis Port. President Kennedy smiling and confident with the radiant first lady by his side in Dallas shortly before the assassination. The Zapruder film. Jackie Kennedy mourning at the funeral while her small son salutes the coffin. These images have become larger than life; more than simply...
Ecco, 2016. — 752 p. The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer brings into focus with vividness and immediacy one of the great American...
Ecco, 2016. — 496 p. The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs. Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer brings into focus with vividness and immediacy one of the great American...
Phaidon Press, 2001. — 132 p. Written and compiled by Lukitsh (art history, Massachusetts Coll. of Art, Boston; Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Work and Career), this small-format book on 19th-century photographer Cameron (1815-79) features high-quality reproductions with detailed captions. The text is succinct and engaging, revealing how Cameron produced the main body of her work,...
Aboriginal Studies Press, 2015. — 296 p. Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants who can use this archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim culture. In Calling the Shots, contributors...
Aboriginal Studies Press, 2015. — 296 p. Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants who can use this archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim culture. In Calling the Shots, contributors...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2014. — 224 p. With a landmark around every corner and a picture perfect view atop every hill, San Francisco might be the world's most picturesque city. And yet, the Golden City is so much more than postcard vistas. It's a town alive with history, culture, and a palpable sense of grandeur best captured by a man known as San Francisco's Brassai....
Doubleday, 1980. — 132 p. Cats have nine lives. The average photographer has a studio , several cameras, a darkroom, an assistant, an answering machine... and a cat. This book is about the friendship between photographers and cats.
Aperture, 1998. — 264 p. "When I aired my doubts about Israel's immigration policy to one of the high government officials, he told me: 'By any logic, the creation of the state of Israel was not possible. It was born through a will stronger than reason, and grew through suffering greater than human beings are expected to support.' But the new country, born out of victorious...
Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942. — 278 p. One of my photography related side hobbies is the collecting of the old U.S. Camera annuals. If you haven’t ever seen one, they’re basically just big year in review books that were release between the mid-30s and 60s. (I think). Each one I own contains work by a lot of the heavyweights of photography – Ansel Adams, Ed Weston, Henri...
Duell, Sloane & Pearce, 1961. — 224 p. Caught between the book covers of this, the 26th edition of U.S. Camera Annual, is a never-to-be forgotten pictorial adventure into the world of photography. The fine tradition established by the Annual continues with this issue, which includes the most satisfying collections of photographs yet to be published to a long line of volumes...
New York: Duell, Sloane & Pearce, 1961. — 215 p. Thomas Maloney edited and published the U.S. Camera Annual from 1935 to 1969, and numerous other photography books. McCall's Children - Art Kane, Bert Stern, Boyce Downy. Robert Fréson Brett Weston - Europe George Silk and Marvin E. Newman - Sports Illustrated Mathew Brady's Picture Men W. Suschitzky and Peter Suschitzky James...
U.S. Camera Pub., 1949. — 388 p. The 1950 edition of US Camera Annual is one of the finest to be compiled since the series first appeared. Over 280 p. are devote to the Fine Picture Section with breathtaking landscapes, nudes, pictorials and portraits by American, British, Dutch German, Italian, Swiss and many other photographers bring unlimited beauty, variety and interest to...
Harper Design, 2014. — 288 p. The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never seen before; and a foreword by New York Times...
Harper Design, 2014. — 253 p. The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never seen before; and a foreword by New York Times...
Little Brown and Company, 2015. — 496 p. A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her...
Little Brown and Company, 2015. — 496 p. A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her...
Little Brown and Company, 2015. — 496 p. A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her...
Intellect, 2011. — 178 p. This title features stunning photos augmented by J. Hoberman's preface and Katarzyna Marciniak's essays. This powerful presentation of photographs of Poland from the late 1980s to the present depicts the hybridized landscape of this pivotal Eastern European nation following its entry into the European Union. A visual record of the country's transition...
The MIT Press, 1985. — 332 p. These five hundred photographs are a unique and exuberant record of Bauhaus activities and experiments during the 1920s and early 1930s. Significantly, most of the photographs were taken by artists - painters such as Fritz Kuhr and Werner Siedhoff, designers Heinz Loew and Herbert Bayer, Bauhaus masters Hannes Meyer and Joosst Schmidt - who were...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999 — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0892365161; ISBN13: 978-0892365166. Ranging from nineteenth-century daguerreotypes to more recent work by photographers such as Frederick Sommer and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the J. Paul Getty Museums collection of more than one hundred thousand images ranks among the most comprehensive holdings of rare and important...
Intellect, 2013. — 330 p. From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period — before going on to become one of America’s most celebrated filmmakers — Stanley Kubrick at "Look" Magazine sheds new light on the aesthetic and...
University of New Mexico Press, 1995. — 262 p. Karl Struss (1886-1981) was a master of both still and motion picture photography. A native of New York City, he first studied photography with Clarence White and soon mastered the tenets of pictorialism. Alfred Stieglitz featured his work in a 1910 exhibition and a 1912 issue of Camera Work and invited Struss to become a member -...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 330 p. In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, all then virtually unknown, were commissioned to chronicle in pictures the economic struggle and social dislocation of the...
University Press of Kentucky, 2004. — 371 p. Seeing America explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Taken together, they visually articulated the essential ideas occupying the American consciousness in the years between the world wars. Melissa McEuen examines the work of Doris Ulmann, who made...
Bowdoin College, 1966. — 24 p. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. As Maine Goes is photographic evidence of the way in which we are despoihng the earth. Its pictures are Maine photographs but they represent conditions in Virginia, CaHfornia, my own state of Washington, and every other state of the Union. Man has predatory procUvities that have...
Dartmouth College Press, 2012. — 265 p. While earlier theorists held up “experience” as the defining character of installation art, few people have had the opportunity to walk through celebrated installation pieces from the past. Instead, installation art of the past is known through archival photographs that limit, define, and frame the experience of the viewer. Monica E....
3rd Edition. — Eastman Kodak Company, 1919. — 132 p. The first edition of "The Photography of Colored Objects" was written by Doctor C. E. K. Mees, who stated it was an attempt to put clearly the theory underlying the photography of colored objects and the application of that theory to those branches of practice which are of the most immediate importance. While purely...
2nd Edition. — Eastman Kodak, 1921. — 126 p. While a knowledge of the theory of photography is by no means essential for success in the making of pictures, most photographers must have felt a curiosity as to the scientific foundations of the art and have wished to know more of the materials which they use, and of the reactions which those materials undergo when exposed to light...
Eastman Kodak, 1920. — 120 p. While a knowledge of the theory of photography is by no means essential for success in the making of pictures, most photographers must have felt a curiosity as to the scientific foundations of the art and have wished to know more of the materials which they use, and of the reactions which those materials undergo when exposed to light and when...
Thames&Hudson, 1991. — 168 p. This book is an interesting experiment, partly a Surrealist documentary, it brings chance into the fairly predictable realm of history/autobiography. George Melly missed the Paris heydey, but did manage to meet and get to know various figures associated with the Surrealists. Moreover, Melly learned the history of Surrealism, and attempts to weave...
Viking Kestrel, 1985. — 72 p. — (Women of Our Time). At seventeen, Dorothea Lange knew she would be a photographer — even though she had never taken a picture. She had grown up observing the life of the poor people in the street with an artist's keen eye. As a young photographer, Dorothea focused that eye on the hungry and homeless people of the Great Depression. She traveled...
Follett, 1974. — 200 p. A six-year-old swings a pickaxe and breathes black air twelve hours a day in a Pennsylvania coal mine -and who cares? A Jew from Poland lives four years in a ratinfested cellar in New York-and who cares? A ragged, gaunt-faced family stares at the sunparched wasteland that was their Oklahoma farm -and who cares? The ten photographers in this book cared....
Norton, 1982. — 168 p. Gathers a selection of Brady's battlefield photographs and portraits of politicians, soldiers, artists, and writers, and traces his career as a photographer.
Meves Bros., 1863. — 16 p. It is hardly necessaiy to observe, that Photography is the Art of taking Portraits, See., and, since first discovered, its progress has been wonderful and rapid in the extreme, having almost with daily improvements arrived at perfection in all its branches except one, and that one is Colour, which "Art" alone at present can supply, to produce those...
Pantheon Books, 1986. — 148 p. A self-taught photographer, Duane Michals broke away from established traditions of the medium during the 1960s. His messages and poems inscribed on the photographs, and his visual stories created through multiple images, defied the principles of the reigning practitioners of the form. Indeed, Michals considers himself as much a storyteller as a...
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. — 192 p. — ISBN: 1474254179. When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photographic or "the...
Temple University Press, 1983. — 312 p. This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a great industrial metropolis in transition. It is the story of a railroad city, a city of trolleys and subways and horse-drawn vehicles, as it gradually succumbed to the automobile. It is the...
Review of Reviews, 1911. — 384 p. We have reached a point in this country when we can look back, not without love, not without intense pride, but without partisan passion, to the events of the Civil War, We have reached a point, I am glad to say, when the North can admire to the full the heroes of the South, and the South admire to the full the heroes of the North. There is a...
Arco Publishing, 1974. — 124 p. From the first pioneering attempts to stop time and record it forever, through the development of craft and color to present-day sophisticated camera technology, here is a lively look at the history, technique and great names of photography, brilliantly illustrated with 170 photos, twenty in full color. One good picture, it is said, is worth a...
Dawbarn & Ward, 1895. — 92 p. At the suggestion of the Publishers the following pages have been written instead of revising The Art and Practice of Interior Photography, which was published five years ago, and has been out of print for some time. Much has been written during the past few years on the artistic treatment of landscape photography but the treatment of architectural...
Boston Publishing Company, 1983. — 188 p. — (The Vietnam Experience) Nick Mills makes an admirable effort to chronicle the role of the American Soldier - as seen through the lenses of Army combat photography but I'm hopeful a book will be written someday about the courageous photographers, many wounded and decorated, who braved jungle operations, exposed themselves to enemy...
Penguin Studio, 1998. — 136 p. A glorious celebration of feminine mystique and goddess mythology. For centuries, cultures throughout the world have venerated the feminine aspect of God--a goddess archetype that was the giver of life and death. Now, goddess mythology has taken on new meaning in Visions of the Goddess. Authors Courtney Milne and Sherrill Miller give us Mother...
New World Library, 1999. — 136 p. Celebrating a century of new frontiers, a lively history of the last century covers the leaders, thinkers, revolutionaries, artists, and scientists who advanced the human condition, including Amelia Earhart, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cesar Chavez, Louis Armstrong, and Muhammad Ali, among many others.
Wittenborn, Schultz, 1947. — 98 p. The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Design and typography by Paul Rand. The Documents of Modern Art Number Three, letterpress edition, edited by Robert Motherwell and visually expresses Moholy-Nagy's Bauhaus modernist vision through art, architecture, sculpture, displays, movie sets, furniture, etc.
Arcade Publishing, 2014. — 384 p. This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time — photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient — survival is the order of the day. After the war, she...
Doubleday, 1989. — 118 p. A selection of photographs, that influenced and revealed, and therefore had a dramatic impact on the world. Occasionally an extraordinary photograph emerges, one that is more than a documentary record of an important event or memorable scene. The photograph itself becomes the event and, as a consequence, the world is measurably changed. The photographs...
Alfred Van Der Marck, 1985. — 188 p. The Red Couch marks the culmination of the four-year-adventure of two awardwinning photographers who traversed the United States with an eight-foot-long red-velvet sofa and the dream of creating a portrait of America. Their dream was outlandish, their adventure serendipitous. But despite deprivation, harrowing encounters, endless rejections,...
Smashwords, 2017. — 104 p. Light is a powerful tool because, by it, we see and do everything else. It is a true artist who is able to harness light to show us things we may otherwise miss - to tell a story without using any words at all. I'm sure you've heard this said of some of life's most important but fleeting moments: If you blink, you'll miss it. But what photography does...
T.Y. Crowell, 1974. — 100 p. This book explores photography in a unique way — through the human and artistic experiences of two of the world's most accomplished photo essayists. It does more than explain style and technique; it brings to life the impulses, the thoughts, the frailties, the creative processes that make the work of both Paul Fusco and Will McBride a standard of...
Aperture, 1986. — 104 p. Morath, a photojournalist married to Arthur Miller, began her career as an assistant to Henri Cartier-Bresson in the early 1950s. With connections like those, it's not surprising that she has met and photographed nearly every literary and artistic luminary of the post-World War II years: Anais Nin, Jean Cocteau, Alexander Calder, Alfred Kazin, and Igor...
Aperture, 1999. — 104 p. — (Aperture Masters of Photography) Although celebrated for her extraordinary studies of modern dance in the late 1920s and early thirties, Barbara Morgan enjoyed an artistic career that embraced a wide range of philosophical and aesthetic influences. Her studies of pioneering dancers such as Martha Graham, José Limón, Erik Hawkins and Merce Cunningham...
General Publishing Group, 1997. — 124 p. In Jay P. Morgan's world, nothing is sacred. With amazing realism, Morgan's photographic wizardry captures regular people in familiar situations that have gone wildly out of control, giving life to our nightmares, fears, and humiliations. Wacky photographer Jay P. Morgan creates the photo equivalent of Gary Larson's The Far Side. 100...
Texas A&M University Press, 2009. — 232 p. A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards — sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant...
University of Nebraska Press, 1981. — 180 p. Unique photo journalism, recording history of ordinary objects which disappear in time. This author was born in Central City, NE, and never lost his love for his birthplace throughout his life. Wright Morris (1910-1998) was a renowned writer and affective photographer. Pairing photographs with his own writing, Morris pioneered a new...
Friends of Photography, 1982. — 124 p. From the publisher: "In Photographs & Words the two principal concerns of Wright Morris' career are found in a new collaboration...This volume is the first to give emphasis to Morris' contribution to the visual arts with matchless laser-scan reproductions of his images. They represent with elegance, clarity and precision what the camera...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 252 p. Hedda Morrison's A Photographer in Old Peking, published last year, offered an incomparable visual record of a vanished city: Peking as it was in the 1930s and '40s. Library Journal called it "remarkable...an unusual and valuable book about pre-1949 China." A fitting sequel to that volume, this book collects more of Morrison's photographs...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 252 p. Hedda Morrison's A Photographer in Old Peking, published last year, offered an incomparable visual record of a vanished city: Peking as it was in the 1930s and '40s. Library Journal called it "remarkable...an unusual and valuable book about pre-1949 China." A fitting sequel to that volume, this book collects more of Morrison's photographs...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 262 p. Hedda Morrison's A Photographer in Old Peking, published last year, offered an incomparable visual record of a vanished city: Peking as it was in the 1930s and '40s. Library Journal called it "remarkable...an unusual and valuable book about pre-1949 China." A fitting sequel to that volume, this book collects more of Morrison's photographs...
Dodd, Mead, 1986. — 232 p. This photographic essay provides a fascinating historical overview of 34 black women photographers from 1839 to 1985. It is divided into five time periods and includes the general history of each period, along with the particular photographers' place in it. This volume is profusely illustrated with the work of each photographer and includes both...
University of Minnesota Press, 2003. — 270 p. Photographer Nacho Lopez was Mexico's Eugene Smith, fusing social commitment with searing imagery to dramatize the plight of the helpless, the poor, and the marginalized in the pages of glossy illustrated magazines. Even today, Lopez's photographs forcefully belie the picturesque exoticism that is invariably presented as the essence...
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 328 p. The Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920 is among the world’s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes — commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the...
University of North Carolina, 2012. — 192 p. In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old, to capture community celebrations...
University of North Carolina, 2012. — 136 p. In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old, to capture community celebrations...
Taschen, 1996. — 764 p. A beautifully produced, encyclopedic photo-book on the history of twentieth century photography. Almost 300 of the century's most influential and relevant photographers are featured in alphabetical order with examples of their work to go along with each biography. Some of those featured are Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Robert Capa, Henri...
Museum and Heritage Centre, 1984. — 36 p. An introduction and list of exhibits to the Exhibition at Kingston upon Thames Museum and Heritage Centre, opened May 1984. Eadweard James Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge at Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, in 1830, and died there in 1904. He spent much of his working life in America, where he found fame as a photographer....
MIT Press, 2015. — 335 p. Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer – and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist – Félix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. Composed as a series of vignettes (we might view them as a series of "written photographs"), this intelligent and witty book offers stories of Nadar's...
Getty Publications, 1995. — 264 p. Since the J. Paul Getty Museum began collecting photographs in 1984, it has amassed one of the greatest photography collections in the world. Naef has here selected more than 200 masterpieces from this collection and written commentaries on each. Ranging from the 1830s to the 1960s, these photographs provide an informal history of the form and...
Enslow, 2008. — 134 p. Through his specialized techniques and unique style, this photographer became famous for his photos of presidents, generals, and bloody battles fought during the Civil War.
Benedikt Taschen, 1993. — 202 p. The text for this is in German, English, and French. It includes beautiful erotic photographs of female nudes. Most photos date from the 1850s or so, and follow the popular tradition of harem/slave-girl themes. Most of these photos are reproduced as full-page plates. Taschen art books are wonderful! Another somewhat disappointing period piece....
Museum of Modern Art, 1937. — 240 p. This lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. Through more...
Delivered on the 8th Bromsen Lecture, May 3, 1980, Boston. (Maury А. Bromsen Lecture in Humanistic Bibliography, No. 8) — Boston Public Library, 1984. — 60 p. "Beaumont Newhall is justly regarded as the preeminent photographic historian of our time and has been one of the most influential personalities in modern photography." This summation introduces the volume of Essays in...
Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1961. — 264 p. The book is divided into four parts; An Art and An Industry, in which Newhall takes the mostly accepted chronological view of history; Plates, in which are included major examples of the daguerreotype “art” showing that the daguerreotype was principally used to record people, places, and occasionally things; A Technique and a Craft, in...
Museum of Modern Art, 1949. — 266 p. Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity,...
Morgan & Morgan, 1974. — 168 p. The career and work of William Henry Jackson are without equal in the history of photography. His lifetime, from 1843 to 1942, paralleled the first century of photography; his work makes up an important part of that century. Over 100 of William Jackson's finest photographs. Subjects include Native Americans, western railways (such as the Denver &...
Castle Books, 1958. — 200 p. Here, for the first time in a single volume, the foremost masters of the camera are fully represented. In the work of such giants as Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Erich Salomon, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, et al, we can trace the development of photography as a...
Aperture, 1989. — 198 p. Nancy Newhall wrote some of the most incisive work ever published on the inner lives of the photographers who shaped the medium. Her friendship with photographers such as Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Helen Levitt, to name a few, lends her writing a vibrancy rarely found in essays on photography. Newhall was one of the...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979. — 122 p. A really interesting book with unique photos accompanied by potted biographies and comments by Arnold Newman. Of all forms of art, portraiture is one of the most elusive, and one of the most difficult for any artist effectively to master. This may well sound a paradoxical thing to say in view of the number of artists who practice it. But I...
David R. Godine, 1974. — 232 p. Dust jacket notes: "If you've come this far, don't bother to read this flap copy but turn immediately to the contents of the book. You know the photographs; you've seen them for years. Newman's portraits of Stravinsky hunched within the black frame of his grand piano, of O'Keeffe sitting gravely, quietly beside her husband Alfred Stieglitz, of...
National Geographic, 2000. — 280 p. Celebrating the women who have helped make National Geographic one of the most visually spectacular magazines ever published, this guide retraces a century of outstanding photography by women contributors.
Unicorn Pub. House, 1982. — 132 p. Women of Vision is a visual statement by twenty contemporary women photographers reflecting the positive and creative aspects of life. I hope this book will not only be an important photographic anthology demonstrating the contribution of women to photography but a book that proves that it is not necessary to photograph the horrible, the...
Hulton Deutsch, 1995. — 488 p. Since photojournalism is just as much about the common people as it is about the luminaries of the day, for many of the people in those pictures it may be the only proof that they ever even existed. Dozens, hundreds of life stories, lost forever and recorded nowhere, yet they happened to be in the right place at the right time and so their...
Aperture, 1976. — 104 p. — (The Aperture History of Photography) Alfred Stieglitz (1864-46) is one of the most revered artists in the history of the photographic medium. Via his influential journal "Camera Work", which he edited and published from 1903 to 1917, and his galleries 291, The Intimate Gallery and An American Place, he championed, published and exhibited much of the...
Abrams, 2004. — 200 p. One of the top hair stylists working in fashion today, Serge Normant performs his magic on the most beautiful actresses and models of our time. A tour de force of feminine fantasy, Serge Normant Metamorphosis is a dazzling summation of contemporary style, fashion and glamour - as envisioned by this gifted artist and captured in images by the world's...
The Getty Conservation Institute, 2010. — 756 p. — (Readings in Conservation). This volume is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession. In seventy-two essential texts from the nineteenth century to the present day, this anthology collects key writings that have influenced both the philosophical and...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 267 p. "Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into...
Durham, 2000. — 200 p. Since Photojournalism 76, the first book of the Pictures of the Year contest, the very nature of photojournalism has undergone great change. Today our messages move through the ether in ways we could not have predicted just 25 years ago. The idea of electronic publishing, with audiences that literally span the globe, would have been dismissed. The...
OC Fair, 2019. — 68 p. The OC Fair & Event Center annually conducts a highly competitive Visual Arts competition which includes Fine Art, Photography and Woodworking. These catalogs document the first place, special award winners and featured artists that were on exhibition during the run of the OC Fair.
Wolfhound Press, 1995. — 117 p. On April 8 1912, Francis Browne, a theology student studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood left Dublin carrying a First Class ticket for the Southampton- Cherbourg- Queenstown (now Cobh) segments of the maiden voyage of the ‘unsinkable’ liner, the RMS Titanic. This extraordinary man carried his camera everywhere and documented life everywhere...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. — 112 p. In September 1945 Joe O'Donnell was a twenty-three-year-old Marine Corps photographer wading ashore in Japan, then under American occupation. His orders were to document the aftermath of U.S. bombing raids in Japanese cities, including not only Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also cities such as Sasebo, one of the more than sixty Japanese...
Coo Press, 1974. — 240 p. Back in the day there were a lot more interesting photography magazines than there are now. Creative Camera came from England and in addition they published a series of annual hardcover books edited by Colin Osman and Peter Turner. The 1975 edition includes portfolios by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ralph Gibson, Les Krims, and a number of...
Interface California, 1976. — 140 p. Emma B. Freeman, like the half-Indian, half-white subjects in her romanticized photographs of Native Americans, was caught frequently between two worlds. Ultimately her art, and her strength, lay in the manner in which she combined the best elements of both. She was a renegade woman who defied the constraints of the male-dominated world of...
P.E. Palmquist, 1985. — 124 p. This book represents only a portion of our project which has been underway since 1971. During the fifteen intervening years, nearly 500 photographers have been identified as working in this county between 1850 and the present day. Some are merely a name on a census roll, while others are as real (to us) as Ansel Adams. It is our goal to publish...
Carl Mautz Pub., 2000. — 161 p. Completely revised edition, featuring Richard Rudisill's Directories of Photographers, an annotated international bibliography, and six new essays on photography research. Included are David Haynes' "how to" essay expanded to include new resources provided by the advent of the computer and the World Wide Web); Linda Ries' sequel to her...
PublicAffairs, 2004. — 168 p. As the nation reflects on the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling against "separate, but equal," this remarkable book of photographs reveals the realities of segregated life for urban blacks in the South. Henry Clay Anderson established Anderson Photo Service in Greenville, Mississippi in 1948. Throughout the 1950s and 60s, he photographed this relatively...
Royal Botanic Gardens, 2013. — 318 p. In 1837, Daguerre developed his eponymous process, opening the doors to modern photography. Around the same time, the once-neglected Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, found itself the focus of renewed interest and rapid expansion. The renaissance at Kew and revolution in photography are inextricably linked, as professional photographers and...
Royal Botanic Gardens, 2013. — 318 p. In 1837, Daguerre developed his eponymous process, opening the doors to modern photography. Around the same time, the once-neglected Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, found itself the focus of renewed interest and rapid expansion. The renaissance at Kew and revolution in photography are inextricably linked, as professional photographers and...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983. — 208 p. Regarded as the father of modern fashion photography, 2013 marks the centenary of Norman Parkinson’s birth. Many of the tropes that are now commonplace in print and online images – exotic locations, unexpected props and weird juxtapositions – were introduced in the extraordinary photographs he took before and after the Second World War....
St. Martin's Press, 1978. — 152 p. Sisters under the skin is Norman Parkinson's long overdue first book. Acclaimed as one of the world's leading photographers, he has for the last four decades captured with his camera women from all walks of life: old and young, regal and gutteral, great heroines of stage and screen, women covered and here discovered. To further enhance the...
Viking Press, 1968. – 100 p. From dust jacket notes: "This book by 'one of the most remarkable living photographers,' as Stephen Spender describes Gordon Parks, is the author's first one using creative photography as its theme. It combines many of Parks' world-famous color photographs with his poetry, which evokes or extends the mood of the pictures..."
Bulfinch Press, 1997. — 368 p. At age 84 Gordon Parks is regarded by many as a living legend - photographer, film-maker, novelist, poet and composer whose life and work present an inspiring success story. In this volume the artist provides a complete retrospective of his photographic career - a book that fuses nearly 300 images with Parks' own account of his life. The text...
Viking Press, 1975. — 184 p. Moments Without Proper Names is an autobiographical book where Gordon Parks portraits the social problems of his native Fort Scott, Kansas. With poetry and photography, he talks about poverty, corruption, bigotry, drug addition, and death. Coming from this impoverished environment, Gordon Parks managed to become this sort of Renaissance man whose...
Aperture, 2015. — 448 p. In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography. Newly revised histories of photography as recorded via the photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the medium's culture, particularly in places that are often marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa....
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. — 188 p. This chronicle of the life and work of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) richly portrays one of America's most celebrated photographers. The woman behind the camera is revealed in excerpts from her letters, journal entries, in the words of seven essayists who together develop a full vision of Lange as artist, woman, mother, and activist,...
L. Upcott Gill, 1899. — 172 p. The following chapters are intended as supplementary instructions in the art of photography for those who have learned its first principles. Most attention has been paid to the chief elements of success in home portraiture, which are Posing and Lighting, and less to the after manipulations of Printing, etc. I do not think it necessary to describe...
Amphoto, 1974. — 136 p. Robin Perry was an innovative color photographer who taught his creative methods through workshops that influenced many pro photographers. This book is filled with examples of his work and his technical suggestions.
Enslow Publishers, 2002. — 136 p. — (Historical American Biographies). While history books consider George Eastman to be the father of photography, most people are unaware that his contributions to the world extended far beyond his multimillion-dollar company, Eastman Kodak. A banker by trade, his determination to improve and simplify his weekend hobby led to discovering...
Published 2001 by Enslow, 2001. — 136 p. — (Historical American Biographies). Best known for capturing some of the most memorable images of the American Civil War, Mathew Brady was more than just a photographic pioneer. Beginning his career at a time when photography was a new medium, Brady used his skills to record the faces of great Americans and to chronicle the progress of...
Little, Brown & Company, 1985. — 294 p. This picture-packed book ranges widely over the history of the last 50 years, particularly World War II. Phillips, a pioneering photographer for Life magazine, was present with his camera at everything from a Mediterranean cruise with European royalty to an attack on a German-held bridge by Italian partisans. The Algerian-born Phillips...
American Photographic Publishing Co., 1921. — 264 p. As we look back to the year 1905 in the history of pictorial photography in America, it seems very near the beginning. Independent workers here and there had created sensations with their work. Some salons had been held and the Photo Secession had made its name known both here and in England. On the whole, though, outside of...
Amphoto, 1974. — 110 p. The Fine Print: Written by Fred Picker the superb BW photographer/printer that designed and made ZONE VI STUDIOS equipment and taught workshops. "The Fine Print is a collection of 75 fine photographs and a private course in photography. From the back cover: "Fred Picker clearly describes how he used specific equipment, materials and techniques to create...
Pictorial Photographers of America, 1916. — 20 p. Representing photography and other graphic arts. The official organ of the Pictorial Photographers of America. By the end of World War I, Stieglitz and Steichen were shedding Pictorial photography’s painterly facade in order to promote an unvarnished display of the medium’s natural strength — namely, its capacity for producing a...
Pictorial Photographers of America, 1917. — 30 p. Representing photography and other graphic arts. The official organ of the Pictorial Photographers of America. By the end of World War I, Stieglitz and Steichen were shedding Pictorial photography’s painterly facade in order to promote an unvarnished display of the medium’s natural strength — namely, its capacity for producing a...
Pictorial Photographers of America, 1919. — 130 p. To many people photography is merely a mechanical process. To an increasing number, however, photography is being seen as an art, by which personal impressions of nature or human life may be expressed as truly as by the brush. These workers in photography see in it a medium by which the action of light upon sensitive surfaces...
Pictorial Photographers of America, 1920. — 92 p. The painter need not always paint with brushes, he can paint with light itself. Modern photography has brought light under control and made it as truly art-material as pigment or clay. The old etchers turned chemical action to the service of Art. The modern photographer does the same, using the mysterious forces of nature as...
Pictorial Photographers of America, 1922. — 110 p. In this book, our third Pictorial Annual, we offer the choice of our Jury from nearly a thousand prints, selected without regard to membership in the organization and solely with the intention of exhibiting the best that America can produce. We are grateful to all who have contributed, whether successfully or not, for their...
Doubleday, 1979. — 196 p. It is a really excellent handbook of photography by someone who had complete access to the stars of their day. The technique is very very refreshing...Pigozzi actually mostly takes pictures of himself either as he is with some star he know or as one walks by him...Simply incredible and has to be seen to be believed. It really inspired me in many ways...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 — 80 p. — ISBN10: 0892365668; ISBN13: 978-0892365661. American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for his portraits of Depression-era America, a number of which were included in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), his famous collaboration with writer James Agee. In 1942 at the behest of retired journalist Karl Bickel,...
Lehrstuhl fur Kunstgeschichte, 2004. — 276 s. — Deutsch, Englisch. Mit seiner besonderen Wahrnehmungsweise dokumentiert Leve Ereignisse in den 50er Jahren, die zur Entstehung neuer Kunstformen beigetragen haben. So wurde er der Zeuge von flüchtigen Aktionen und Performances der frühen Fluxus- und Happening- Bewegung. Doch Leve ist weit mehr als ein dokumentierender Teilnehmer....
H.N. Abrams, 1969. — 632 p. A comprehensive history covering all aspects of the medium of photography with biographies, commentary, and portfolios of many 20th century masters such as Ed van der Elsken, Bill Brant, Chim, Gordon Parks, Bruce Davidson, Robert Doisneau, Lucien Clergue, and others.
Little Brown & Co, 1987. — 284 p. "Eliot Porter", a coffee table-sized retrospective of the famed photographer's life and work, was published in 1987, just a few years before Porter's death. It contains an extended autobiographical essay by Porter, sketching his worldwide photographic career, and a superb collection of over 120 of his best photographs, with annotation of time,...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979. — 144 p. Intimate Landscapes, an exhibition of fifty-five color photographs by Eliot Porter, is the first one-man exhibition of color photographs ever presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Works by Eliot Porter entered the Museum's collection as far back as 1949, when Georgia O'Keeffe presented from the Estate of Alfred Stieglitz an...
St. Martin's Press, 1999. — 164 p. Ricky Powll is most recognizable for his journalistic photography. He has worked mostly in taking photos of famous rappers, this work can be found in his other book "Oh Snap". The photography style shown here is Powell's attempt to show the city and people of New York in the eighties. Powell worked as a bike messenger and nightclub busboy in...
Crescent Books, 1991. — 118 p. From Edward Curtis' haunting portraits to Ansel Adams' soaring vistas, this informative and visually compelling overview of America's most famous photographers traces the history and evolution of the black and white image and how it shaped our national view. In a career spanning almost 70 years, "Ansel Adams inspired millions with spectacular...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 311 p. Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first photographically illustrated science book...
Amsterdam University Press, 2015. — 281 p. The essays in this volume examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization, and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia, a period when the Dutch colonial regime was implementing a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy. The contributors...
Harry N Abrams, 1995. — 180 p. Pultz explores various issues in photography by focusing on one of its greatest subjects--the human body. He traces images of the body--male and female, child and adult, nude and clothed--from the tintypes of anonymous itinerant photographers to the great classic works of the masters of the medium to the artistic experiments of today. 125...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. — 264 p. East Kent hop pickers, Box Hill on a sunny Bank Holiday, the building of the London Underground, ginger beer sellers on Clapham Common, Sunday in Scarborough, penny-farthings in Manchester, market-day in Salisbury...300 photographs of superb quality, largely taken by Francis Frith and never produced before, make up this magnificent album...
Houghton Mifflin, 1973. — 166 p. This book presents a collection of socially and historically relevent photographs of Boston and vicinity, taken between 1890 and 1920 by G. Frank Radway, a highly perceptive if unknown photographer... No previous book has tried to capture the moment when Boston surrendered its Revolutionary and nineteenth-century images and moved into the...
University of Illinois Press, 2006. — 424 p. During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural achievements of its leading figures, and mapping the paths their pictures blazed...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 310 p. In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare , Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Raiford analyzes why activists chose photography over other...
Pen & Sword Books, 2005. — 144 p. Sixty years ago, the World had been at war for nearly six years. The cost in life and material terms was appalling Millions of men and women had died, families and nations destroyed and all sides were suffering grievously in human and financial terms. The Allies were closing in on Hitler’s Germany from the East, West and South. To historians...
Little, Brown and Company, 1963. — 428 p. In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s, when any trip to the city was not...
2nd ed. — H.A. Hyatt, 1902. — 138 p. A treatise on light and its effect under the skylight, including chapters on skylight and skylight construction, window lighting and dark room work. Frequently we have been requested by mail to give our method or rule for making the different lightings, as we have practiced them for years past. This, we feel sure, our readers will understand...
Friends of Photography, 1993. — 108 p. It is the first book to examine the accomplishments of this century's best-known hotographer from a variety of critical and scholarly perspectives. The eight incisive essays view Adams' career in terms of its wide-ranging social, environmental and aesthetic ramifications, revealing not only its vast historical importance but also its...
Indiana University Press, 2015. — 237 p. — (Railroads Past and Present). Born in the Ukraine, photographer Jack Delano moved to the United States in 1923. After graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, Delano worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) as a photographer. Best known for his work for the Office of...
St. Martin's Press, 2000. — 120 p. John Drysdale's photographs are exciting, tender, hilarious, often exhilarating- but for more than the obvious reasons. Certainly it's not every day that one sees a lion that's befriended a Boston terrier. Maybe elephants don't usually go fishing, and parrots generally don't tend to lounge around in beach chairs, next to their human...
Zenith Press, 2016. — 259 p. Experience the twentieth century through the people and events that made headlines–a unique collection of voices, images, and unforgettable cultural touchstones. The Twentieth Century in 100 Moments: A Visual History groups and explains the most important events of the twentieth century in the United States, creating a textured, entertaining, and...
Rizzoli, 2005. — 264 p. Famously elusive, Greta Garbo only had her picture taken when a contract required it. She shunned publicity, kept her private life a secret, and rejected the spotlight. Though ambivalent about fame and her public image, Garbo saved all of her favorite portraits, carefully archiving original prints by Clarence Sinclair Bull, Arnold Genthe, Ruth Harriet...
Abrams, 1997. — 184 p. In 1956 Marc Riboud became one of the first Western photographers to enter China since the Communist takeover of 1949, and he was permitted to return regularly over the next four decades. This book presents his compelling record of the far-reaching and rapid changes that have taken place as China has evolved through the revolutionary era into a...
Robert Glenn Ketchum, 1983. — 36 p. This catalogue has been published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of two series of the artist's work. Order from Chaos/New Work and Winters: 1970-1980. The exhibition will open on the West Coast at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, June 7 to July 3, 1983, followed by an East Coast opening at the Hunter Museum...
3rd Edition. — Hazell, Watson, & Viney, 1899. — 78 p. — (Amateur Photographer Library). As the science of photography has its formulae, so has the art of picture-making, in whatever material, its rules. It is not enough to know that a scene is beautiful : the question for the artist is — Will it make a picture ? To see this requires a special training. Acute and instant...
Scovill Manufacturing Company, 1888. — 140 p. The following letters were originally written for the columns of the Photographic Times, wherein they duly appeared throughout the year 1887, and were received with widespread interest and appreciation. Their popularity and real value seemed to warrant republication in a form more permanent and convenient than the photographic...
The Scovill & Adams Co., 1892. — 94 p. Judging from the results that come before me, particularly in the illustrations published in the photographic journals, studio picture-making is as much practised in America as landscapes or outdoor figure composition. And, if I may be allowed to state my opinion freely, the success, in what may be called the higher walks, does not seem...
Hazell, Watson, & Viney, 1889. — 176 p. Gibbon, the historian, that he did not always sufl Sciently distinguish between his own personality and that of the Roman Empire. I am afraid that the following chapters may be open to a similar objection. I fear that a great deal more will be fonnd concerning my own personality and productions than a modest writer would willingly admit;...
Piper & Carter, 1891. — 168 p. My little books on the Art side of photography have been received with so much favour, that I venture to add another to the number. "Pictorial Effect" treated of art principles ; "Picture Making" of the application of those principles to out-door photography ; the present work is chiefly concerned with portraiture. For in-door work a studio is...
New York Graphic Society, 1980. — 264 p. 125 black-and-white illustrations. Dust jacket notes: "New England's 'certain slant of light' has captivated not only Emily Dickinson and generations of other beloved poets and painters but also a long line of distinguised photographers. How and why these men and women aimed their cameras at the people, places, and ways of life in New...
Chicago Review Press, 2011. — 176 p. For the past twenty-five years, Henry Rollins has searched out the most desolate corners of the Earth — from Iraq to Afghanistan, Thailand to Mali, and beyond — articulating his observations through music and words, on radio and television, and in magazines and books. Though he’s known for the raw power of his expression, Rollins has shown...
Ehrenreich Photo-Optical, 1975. — 152 p. The Nikon Image was conceived out of a desire on our part to provide a lasting showcase for the more serious artistic work being produced by outstanding photographers, For us, this book is a logical extension of our dedication and involvement with photography. The seventeen photographers whose work appears on the following pages...
F.V. Chambers, 1920. — 176 p. Commercial photography has been a difficult subject to get a compilation of facts and figures in this branch of the work and until we succeeded in having Mr. Rose prepare these papers, which originally were printed in the Bulletin of Photography as a serial, the commercial photographer has been neglected for many years. Though the variety of work...
3rd edition. — Abbeville Press, 1997. — 696 p. Encompasses the entire range of the photographic medium, from the camera lucida to up-to-date computer technology, and from Europe and the Americas to the Far East. The text investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial and technical - while placing it in historical context. It includes three...
Stanford University Press, 2015. — 185 p. The Japanese passion for photography is almost a cliche, but how did it begin? Although Japanese art photography has been widely studied this book is the first to demonstrate how photography became an everyday activity. Japan's enthusiasm for photography emerged alongside a retail and consumer revolution that marketed products and...
Stanford University Press, 2015. — 185 p. The Japanese passion for photography is almost a cliche, but how did it begin? Although Japanese art photography has been widely studied this book is the first to demonstrate how photography became an everyday activity. Japan's enthusiasm for photography emerged alongside a retail and consumer revolution that marketed products and...
Quirk Books, 2006. — 255 p. The Rotenberg Collection is one of the world’s largest archives of vintage erotica, with more than 20,000 erotic playing cards in its holdings — and Stacked Decks highlights the best of the best. Within these pages, readers will discover illustrated cards dating back to 1835, dazzling pin-up portraits from renowned artists such as Gil Elvgren, cards...
Harry N. Abrams, 1999. — 104 p. An inspiring biography of one of the most successful photojournalists of the 20th century, this life of Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) is exactly the type of book teachers and parents of adolescent girls are looking for. It would be a mistake to treat this as a book for girls only, however, when so many great men--Bourke-White's father, her...
Twin Palms Publishers, 1995. — 100 p. John Patrick Salisbury's first book is the result of five years of reflection on his family's past. Hailing originally from an isolated farming village in Northern California, Salisbury was preceded by seven generations. Family relations still live there, and Salisbury relives his past vicariously in this book through the lives of his...
San Francisco Art Institute, 2002. — 52 p. The jurors of the 2002 Adaline Kent Award are proud to honor Connie Samaras as this year's recipient. Her work — which addresses a wide range of social concerns — is at once critical and beautiful The breadth and consistency of her art and her dedication to developing her vision has resulted fn a body of work which speaks poignantly to...
Arcadia, 1997. — 132 p. Roslindale was at one time part of the town of West Roxbury, which had been set off from Roxbury in 1851. The rapid development of Roslindale, which was annexed to the city of Boston in 1874 and was then known as the South Street District, was largely due to the Boston and Providence Railroad and the streetcars that connected the area to Forest Hills...
Contemporary Books, 1989. — 280 p. Among the many salutes to photography's sesquicentennial published this year, here are two more. Images of America lacks a clear purpose or audience and is further marred by confusing organization and design. It purports to "honor the private legacy" of American images from family albums and personal treasures, yet famous photographs from...
Scholastic, 2004. — 152 p. The moving story of immigration to America as told through the passionate voices and stories of those who passed through Ellis Island. On January 1, 1892, a fifteen-year-old Irish girl named Annie Moore made history when she became the first person to be processed at a new immigrant station at Ellis Island in New York Harbor. In the next 62 years more...
Walker, 2008. — 104 p. He was born in the backwoods of Kentucky in a humble log cabin, but Abraham Lincoln was savvy enough to embrace the new technology of his time — photography — to propel him all the way to the White House. This simple man with lofty goals was willing to use any means necessary, including the power of photography, to save the union and free the slaves —...
Walker & Co., 2008. — 104 p. The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and environmental and economic disaster. More than 100 million acres of land had turned to dust, causing hundreds of thousands of people to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land. FDR's army of photographers took to the...
Little, Brown and Company, 1979. — 336 p. Since its invention, photography has been the world's most popular picture - making process. At the same time, it has been the subject of questions as t o whether or not it is a true art form. In our life time these questions have been answered with a resounding yes. The growth and appreciation of photography in the last two decades has...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 238 p. Charles Cushman (1896-1972) photographed a disappearing world in living color. Cushman's midcentury America--a place normally seen only through a scrim of gray--reveals itself as a place as vivid and real as the view through our window. The Day in Its Color introduces readers to Cushman's extraordinary work, a recently unearthed archive...
Little, Brown, 1992. — 404 p. This guide to photography is aimed at the novice photographer and is based on Ansel Adams' theories about techniques for visualizing and making a photograph. Using the extensive store of Adams' writings - including his advanced series consisting of the books "The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print" - the author offers Adams' views on the...
Studio Vista, 1965. — 100 p. 'The illiterate of the future', wrote Laszlo Moholy-Nagy before the last war, 'will be the person who cannot photograph'; and indeed today much of this illiteracy has vanished. This book traces the evolution of photography as an art, showing its history as a succession of prohibitions which each generation establishes and the next rescinds .Examples...
Harry N. Abrams, 1976. — 196 p. A superbly illustrated, lively, intimate history of one of the great aesthetic adventures of the modern world-the making of the first photographs
Penguin Books, 1974. — 404 p. Illustrated with more than 250 black and white photographs, this book explores the world of art as it relates to the medium of photography. Aaron Scharf (1922 – 1993) was an American-born British art historian who contributed in particular to the history of photography. His investigation uncovered links between painting (and other artforms) and...
Routledge, 2016. — 240 p. — (Routledge History of Photography). Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces — public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden — thus mapping, graphing, and even...
Harry N. Abtams, 1983. — 148 p. A wonderful book of portraits and essays about being an octogenarian. Paperback, in excellent condition and signed by Nancy Rica Schiff. Signature and inscription are shown in photos. Great gift for anyone who has an 80th birthday coming up! Contains portraits and essays about people such as George Burns, Aaron Copland, Louise Nevelson, Norman...
Hutchinson, 1907. — 366 p. With over 300 photographic studies direct from the author's negatives, taken by day and night; and other illustrations. Scarce work by an early animal protectionist and pioneer of nature conservation and animal photography as well as night photography. Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and...
Hutchinson, 1907. — 444 p. With over 300 photographic studies direct from the author's negatives, taken by day and night; and other illustrations. Scarce work by an early animal protectionist and pioneer of nature conservation and animal photography as well as night photography. Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and...
Schiffer Pub, 1998. — 182 p. — (A Schiffer Book for Collectors). Collecting Picture and Photo Frames introduces the reader to the history of frames and an across-the-board sampling of framing styles from the early 1800s through the 1940s. Beautifully illustrated in over 400 color photographs, this book is the first of its kind to show such variety and magnitude of both wall...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 408 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 426 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 408 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 470 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 408 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 480 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 372 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 396 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 456 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
American School of Art and Photography, 1909. — 512 p. The publication of these volumes is our response to a universal request probably never exceeded in the annals of technical education. Down through the past successful years of the American School of Art and Photography, the daily intercourse with its thousands of students in all parts of the world has been incessantly...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. — 192 p. Between 1935 and 1943, the United States government commissioned forty-four photographers to capture American faces, along with living and working conditions, across the country. Nearly 180,000 photographs were taken — 4,000 in Maryland — and they are now preserved in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress....
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. — 119 p. Between 1935 and 1943, the United States government commissioned forty-four photographers to capture American faces, along with living and working conditions, across the country. Nearly 180,000 photographs were taken — 4,000 in Maryland — and they are now preserved in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress....
I.B.TAURIS, 2007. — 247 p. Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known of all photographic genres, with names like Cartier-Bresson, Brassai and Doisneau familiar even to those with a fleeting knowledge of the medium. Yet what exactly is street photography? From what viewpoint does it present its subjects, and how does this viewpoint differ from that of...
National Geographic Society, 1990. — 280 p. This single volume brings together more than 15 world-renowned writers and photographers from the United States, England, France, West Germany, and the Soviet Union. In the tradition of National Geographic quality, with a freedom and breadth of access unprecedented in history, they take you on a tour of the world's largest country....
The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984. — 260 p. — (The Nova Scotia Series: Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts, vol. 16). Allan Sekula's classic study is one of the most important books about photography theory and visual culture, and it has been out of print for decades. Sekula, one of the few insightful critics of photography, published this book when...
Marion & Co., 1900. — 458 p. Hirty-one years ago the firm of Marion published the Pioneer Work on Photography in Colours (Les Couleurs en Photographie, par Louis Ducos du Hauron, Paris 1869, A. Marion) a work containing the basis of practically all phases of the Trichromatic Photography of the present day. This work, however, appeared before the time was ripe for the Process....
Dover, 1991. — 192 p. This rich pictorial treasury documents the early times and ambiance of Queens, one of Long Island's westernmost counties and the largest borough of New York City. Over 260 rare photographs, carefully selected from public and private archives, recall "the good old days" in such communities as Maspeth, Ridgewood, Jamaica, Astoria, Jackson Heights, Forest...
Dover, 1991. — 192 p. This rich pictorial treasury documents the early times and ambiance of Queens, one of Long Island's westernmost counties and the largest borough of New York City. Over 260 rare photographs, carefully selected from public and private archives, recall "the good old days" in such communities as Maspeth, Ridgewood, Jamaica, Astoria, Jackson Heights, Forest...
Ivan R. Dee, 2000. — 328 p. In forty-five years as one of America's liveliest photographers for Life, Time, and other assignments, Art Shay has established a world-wide reputation for capturing the oddities of the moment. His photographs of Khrushchev, Liberace, Harry Truman, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Algren, George Solti, and hundreds of other luminaries are not the...
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 1968. — 64 p. Exhibition catalog from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1968, featuring Eikoh Hosoe, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Josef Sudek, Garry Winogrand, and John Wood. None of the Winogrand photos are familiar. Preface by Norman A. Geske; introduction by Michael McLoughlin.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2003. — 166 p. Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" is a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980. Sherman began making these pictures in 1977 when she was 23 years old. The first six were an experiment: fan-magazine glimpses into the life (or roles) of an imaginary blond actress, played by Sherman herself. The...
New Brunswick, New Jersey, London: Rutgers University Press, 2011. — 304 p. — ISBN 978–0–8135–4884–5. Most view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, including Arkady Shaykhet, Alexander Grinberg, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Evgenii Khaldei, Dmitrii Baltermants, and...
Government Printing Office, 1899. — 28 p. Extracted from US. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1899. Pages 1 to 5. Plates 1 to 9. Up to the present time very few photographs of living fishes have been reproduced and published, and, as compared with the photography of other living forms, attempts or successes in this line are extremely rare. There are a number of methods by means of...
Warne & Co, 1980. — 142 p. A biography of a woman renowned for her photographic interpretations of war, revolution, and poverty and for her personal battle against Parkinsonism.
Holiday House, 2002. — 84 p. Sills's (Inspirations: Stories About Women Artists) eye-opening introduction to a half-dozen strong, often pioneering women photographers focuses on how their lives, experiences and imaginations influenced their work. At the beginning of the century, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) staged deliberate and stylized compositions that proved photographs...
Stanford University Press, 2015. — 240 p. The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have...
Stanford University Press, 2015. — 215 p. The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have...
Chronicle Books, 1988. — 196 p. The Dog Observed presents over 100 magnificent dogs as seen through the lenses of the world's great photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand, Robert Capa, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Margaret Bourke-White, Andre Kertesz, and Eadweard Muybridge. These delightful photographs reveal our deep love for and fascination...
University Press of Kentucky, 1997. — 192 p. In 1933, Morgan and Marvin Smith, twin sons of sharecroppers from central Kentucky, arrived in Harlem, the center of black cultural life in America. For thirty years, the Smiths used their cameras to record the achievements of blacks in the face of poverty and discrimination. Rejecting the focus on misery and hopelessness common to...
National Museum of History and Technology, 1977. — 16 p. Our view of the world today is profoundly influenced by photographya medium which captures moments of history with unerring accuracy and records remote events permanently for all the world to see. Through photography, we can witness what is happening today-and preserve what took place yesterday. This revolutionary mode of...
Duke University Press, 2017. — 289 p. — ISBN: 0822373629, 9780822373629. Presenting two decades of work by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography after Photography is an inquiry into the circuits of power that shape photographic practice, criticism, and historiography. As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms of artistic production are increasingly fluid,...
University Of Chicago Press, 2008. — 382 p. Daring to Look presents never-before-published photos and captions from Dorothea Lange’s fieldwork in California, the Pacific Northwest, and North Carolina during 1939. Lange’s images of squatter camps, benighted farmers, and stark landscapes are stunning, and her captions — which range from simple explanations of settings to...
ICP, 1992. — 92 p. Exhibition catalogue from a survey of photographic art that "catalogues, classifies, archives, and orders numerous photographic elements into a complete unified piece." Curated with text by Charles Stainback; contributions by 25 artists, including Dennis Adams, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski, Sarah Charlesworth, Robbert Flick,...
Little, Brown and Company, 1988. — 529 p. Handsomely produced, this volume combines the highlights of a lifetime of Adams's letter writing with his distinctively sublime photographs to communicate the development and maturation of the aesthetic vision of one of the 20th century's preeminent photographers.
Charta, 1997. — 92 p. The photographs in this volume were selected from the collection of the prestigious Royal Photographic Society in Bath, England, home to 80 Steichen photographs. Steichen's relationship with the RPS was turbulent, as the innovative photographer repeatedly challenged the conservative Society. In 1903, Steichen took aim at the formulaic photographs favored...
Bonanza Books, 1984. — 292 p. Gathers still lifes, landscapes, portraits, advertisements, abstracts, fashion photographs, and nudes by the prominent American photographer, from each period of his career.
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 266 p. — (Border Hispanisms). In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary...
Prestel, 1999. — 200 p. Ninety seminal images by the world's greatest artists provide a stunning tour of the twentieth-century's greatest photographs. From the first image, Heinrich Zille's "Nine Boys Practicing Handstands" to the final, Nan Goldin's backstage portrait of transvestite performers, this generously illustrated volume explores photography's impact on the way we...
National Gallery of Art, 1983. — 258 p. 73 of Stieglitz's finest photographs spanning his entire carreer, including 56 letters and articles. This book accompanied the exhibition in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. This is far more than a picture book; it contains 73 high-quality plates and its real treasures can be found is the twenty page introduction and the fifty...
Dover Publications, 1978. — 180 p. — (Dover Art Collections) This volume reproduces chronologically all the photographs and other illustrations (except for advertisements) that ever appeared in Camera Work. Here are some of the finest and best-known works by American and European artists and photographers — numerous photos by Eduard Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand,...
Dover Publications, 2019. — 176 p. Many of the early twentieth century's finest examples of photography and modernist art reached their widest audience in the fifty issues of Camera Work, edited and published by the legendary photographer Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. The lavishly illustrated periodical established photography as a fine art, and brought a new sensibility...
G. Newnes, 1899. — 200 p. It is not long since it was common to hear people say of Photography, "0 there is nothing in it! It has gone as far as it can go." This was of course the popular verdict ; but there were practical men too who were of opinion that little more was to be expected from it. It would be hard to find the man who would say as much to-day. So many advances has...
G. Newnes, 1899. — 200 p. It is not long since it was common to hear people say of Photography, "0 there is nothing in it! It has gone as far as it can go." This was of course the popular verdict ; but there were practical men too who were of opinion that little more was to be expected from it. It would be hard to find the man who would say as much to-day. So many advances has...
Hand Press, 1981. — 112 p. "I am a street photographer and have from boyhood obsessively photographed the people, events and light of everyday life. The ordinary has always seemed enough of a miracle... I try to learn enough art, compassion and laughter to stop time occasionally — to manifest on photographic paper a few ordinary miracles." This is a wonderful book - Lou Stoumen...
Verlag DSB Dr. Wolf Strache, 1965. — 226 p. Photographic annuals which are nothing more than a "gallery" of pretty pictures seem to us to be an outmoded institution. In our opinion an annual like the German Photographic Annual should show not only the best pictures of the year but through these pictures the year itself, the outstanding events, the personalities who have left...
Enslow, 2002. — 120 p. — (People to Know). Discusses the life and accomplishments of Ansel Adams, including the care he took in the outdoors to ensure the best photographs, and the equal care he took in the darkroom to obtain first-quality prints.
New York Graphic Society, 1975. — 200 p. 200 black and white photographs, by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, and others. During 1935-43 Roy Emerson Stryker headed the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration. He compiled history: some 270,000 photographs of American life. He...
Collins Pub San Francisco, 1993. — 86 p. Celebrates the greatest cinematic canines, including Rin Tin Tin, Lassie and Toto, and the four-legged co-stars of classics such as "The Hound of Baskervilles", "Call of the Wild", "Patton" and "The Thin Man". This collection also captures screen stars in portraits with their friends, such as Joan Crawford with her poodle, the Three...
Clarion Books, 2006. — 184 p. One theme repeatedly crops up in the life and career of Berenice Abbott: her refusal to be defined by other people’s expectations. Spurning traditional roles for women of her era, she lived a bohemian life among other artists in New York’s Greenwich Village and Paris, and embarked upon a career in what was then a male-dominated field. Decades...
Clarion Books, 2006. — 184 p. One theme repeatedly crops up in the life and career of Berenice Abbott: her refusal to be defined by other people’s expectations. Spurning traditional roles for women of her era, she lived a bohemian life among other artists in New York’s Greenwich Village and Paris, and embarked upon a career in what was then a male-dominated field. Decades...
Cobblehill Books, 1994. — 152 p. — ISBN: 0525651861. This well-researched, well-written biography of the man credited with documenting the American Civil War focuses on Brady's professional life as a photographer. Although Brady is shown on the battlefield, he seldom photographed these scenes himself since his eyesight failed rapidly. Instead, as an enterprising entrepreneur,...
Clarion Books, 2000. — 104 p. We all carry around pictures of Lincoln — on our pennies and five-dollar bills. These are among countless images created by engravers and other artists who copied, by hand, portraits that Lincoln posed for in a photographer’s studio. This engaging and attractive book depicts the five most famous Lincoln photographs and their numerous reproductions,...
Scholastic, 1991. — 100 p. December 7, 1941, began like any other day. The sun was warm and bright in Pearl Harbor. Most of the sailors stationed there were relaxing on the relaxing on the decks of their ships But before it was over, this day was to become etched in the memory of every American. For it was the day the United States was attacked and thrust into World War II. The...
Demco Media, 1994. — 100 p. A remarkable photographic record of the women's movement from Seneca Falls to the present. Engaging black-and-white photographs and reproductions present a wide range of women through portraits of well-known individuals and informal shots of unknowns. The history of the 19th amendment, the role of the suffragists and abolitionists on both sides of...
Scholastic, 1990. — 170 p. A conventional history of space exploration from Sputnik to Voyager , with a look into the near future, featuring paintings and photographs, some blurry, most in color, plus selected New York Times front pages. Writing in his usual clear, concise way, this reliable author focuses special attention on the achievements of the Apollo and Space Shuttle...
Museum of Modern Art, 1978. — 156 p. This book is frequently mentioned in bibliographies you find in photo history titles and though it was published in 1978 I always thought this was a wonderful overview of photography from the preceding two decades. In the first twenty-five pages Szarkowski writes in his usual succinct style about the changes in photography from the sixties:...
The Museum of Modern Art, 1989. — 352 p. This new history of photography, published to accompany an anniversary exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, takes its structure from a close examination of the interaction of technical change and artistic expression in a medium nowjust 150 years old. No other book on photography describes so clearly the development of the medium, and...
Dover Publications, 1989. — 580 p. Unabridged Dover (1989) republication of the original (1938) edition. Ranging over 50 years of American history, this work offers a complete account of the development of the art of pho tography in the U nited S tates- from the first introduction of daguerreotypy to the appearance of the film camera and modern processes for book, magazine and...
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844. — 90 p. The Pencil of Nature , published in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was the "first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published" or "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs". It was wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without any aid whatever from the...
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844. — 90 p. The Pencil of Nature , published in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was the "first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published" or "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs". It was wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without any aid whatever from the...
G.W.Jacobs & Co., 1902. — 248 p. In memory of the many trials and errors of my own experience in photography, I launch this volume upon its career, hoping it may aid the ambitious beginner, and enable him to avoid the most common mistakes incident to the first stages of this interesting study. In my early days with the camera, I used every possible means of becoming proficient...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 456 p. When photography appeared shortly before 1840, the metal-plate daguerreotype, invented in France, was first to achieve popularity. But the process simultaneously developed in England for capturing an image on a paper negative — from which many positives could be printed — provided the foundation on which photography would build for the next...
MIT Press, 2000. — 335 p. The German-born Surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), best known for his lifesize pubescent dolls, devoted an artistic lifetime to creating sexualized images of the female body -distorted, dismembered, or menaced in sinister scenarios. In this book Sue Taylor draws on psychoanalytic theory to suggest why Bellmer was so driven by erotomania as well as a...
Daniel D. Teoli Jr, 2013. — 165 p. The Photography of Daniel D. Teoli Jr. If I had do sum up my interest in photography…it must stem from a liking to being able to ‘freeze time.’ I am a self-taught photographer. I did street and documentary photography in Los Angeles and Hollywood, California in the 1970’s and 1980’s. I moved to the Ohio Valley in 1989 and gradually made the...
8th Edition: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1905. — 366 p. The Barnet Book of Photography has come to be recognised as a standard work. Its clear and concise instructions have made it a useful and practical guide to thousands of photographic workers, and, since first published in 1898, it has passed through several large editions which have met with an altogether unprecedented...
4th Edition: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1900. — 326 p. Within the comparatively short time which has elapsed since the Barnet Book of Photography was first issued more than 25,000 copies have been sold, and the time has come for revision and re-issue. Some advances and improvements in various processes have been made meanwhile, but it is perhaps a testimony to the...
London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1898. — 320 p. The purpose of this book is to place in the hands of every Photographer instructive articles on essential processes and manipulations, by eminent writers who have given such subjects their especial study, and who have borne in mind that whilst the experienced Amateur and the Professional may each find much to learn from a...
London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1898. — 320 p. The purpose of this book is to place in the hands of every Photographer instructive articles on essential processes and manipulations, by eminent writers who have given such subjects their especial study, and who have borne in mind that whilst the experienced Amateur and the Professional may each find much to learn from a...
LIFE Books, 2016. — 96 p. Revisit an era when intimacy between celebrities and journalists was revealing and genuine. In this all–new special edition from LIFE, Hidden Hollywood: Rare Images of a Golden Age, you will gain access to the world of classic Hollywood luminaries in various settings including “Before They Were Famous,” “Behind the Scenes,” “At Home Alone” and more....
University Press of Mississippi, 2012. — 252 p. This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from...
Schocken Books, 1977. — 182 p. Dust jacket notes: "We live in a pervasively visual age. Considering that even the early generations of this century were heavily dosed in images - illustrated newspapers, magazines, and later motion pictures - and that today television is a prime instrument in the education of youth to the 'realities' of the world. It is surprising that no more...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. — 256 p. This book is based on an exhibition of twentieth century American photography, "Masters of the Camera; Stieglitz, Steichen and their Successors," organized by Hie American Federation of Arts and partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition began a twoyear tour of American museums in the fall...
Eastman Kodak, 1992. — 212 p. Kodak's Look at Life contest are photographs to delight and surprise and even inspire. They were chosen as the best of 1991 from a field of more than 500,000 pictures sent to more than 160 newspapers in Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the United States. Each newspaper held its own weekly photo contest to select winners from its areas most outstanding...
Time Books, 2015. — 242 p. Since its inception, TIME magazine has been synonymous not just with outstanding journalism, but also with outstanding photography. Now, to mark the 175th anniversary of photography and the birth of photojournalism, the Editors of TIME magazine are publishing this companion book to the groundbreaking digital celebration of photography that TIME.com...
Time Books, 2015. — 240 p. Since its inception, TIME magazine has been synonymous not just with outstanding journalism, but also with outstanding photography. Now, to mark the 175th anniversary of photography and the birth of photojournalism, the Editors of TIME magazine are publishing this companion book to the groundbreaking digital celebration of photography that TIME.com...
Time, 1990. — 196 p. They were 30 years of wonder, and sometimes of shock, uniquely observed and preserved in pictures by the magazines of Time Incorporated. A selection from Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and People Weekly has been gathered together here. Rather than a definitive history of the era, the pictures form a family album of important memories, touchstones in the...
Time Books, 1999. — 178 p. Presents pictures of the major events of the twentieth century involving business, disasters, society, sports, the arts and more.
Time, 1979. — 224 p. This exhibition is a representative selection and a comprehensive view of LIFE Magazine's achievement during its first decade of publication. More than one hundred thousand vintage prints were available from that decade, and this number was first reduced to twenty thousand. The formidable and discerning task of selecting from this group the final two...
Time Inc, 2016. — 32 p. We began this project with what seemed like a straightforward idea: assemble a list of the 100 most influential photographs ever taken. If a picture led to something important, it would be considered for inclusion. From that simple concept flowed countless decisions. Although photography is a much younger medium than painting--the first photo is widely...
Time-Life., 2015. — 394 p. The name Time-Life has become synonymous with providing readers with a deeper understanding of subjects and world events that matter to us all. Now, with the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War upon us, Time-Life The Civil War in 500 Photographs will be an indispensable guide to a nation-changing era and the military, social, economic, and...
Time-Life, 2015. — 272 p. The name Time-Life has become synonymous with providing readers with a deeper understanding of subjects and world events that matter to us all. Now, with the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War upon us, Time-Life The Civil War in 500 Photographs will be an indispensable guide to a nation-changing era and the military, social, economic, and...
Time-Life, 2014. — 305 p. World War II, fought from 1939 to 1945, engulfed the globe in a shattering struggle over national sovereignty and individual rights. It was also the costliest battle in history in terms of human life, with millions perishing in combat, in concentration camps, and under the rubble of crushed cities. This gripping and epic battle is brought powerfully to...
Aperture, 2005. — 188 p. — (Aperture Monograph) Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, a long-unavailable Aperture classic, is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976 at age 85, Strand combed his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume. Seen...
CreateSpace, 2009. — 126 p. — ISBN: 1449518982, ISBN13: 9781449518981. Always a cult photographer, Nigel Tomm is a reckless hard-experimenting genius who combines new ideas, new standards and new photography concepts to create the unique photo experience. The latest portrait and nude photography by Nigel Tomm is a contemporary, playful - neither too pretentious nor too simple -...
Hill & Wang, 1962. — 104 p. — (A Terra magica book). Large octavo volume. Cover is boards covered by glazed photographic paper and cloth. Originally in a printed slipcase which is missing. This volume is consists of photographs from the exhibition "The Human Face of Europe", an international exhibition assembled in 1960 by Dr. Tas Toth, featuring world-famous as well as unknown...
Leete's Island Books, 1980. — 328 p. This anthology gathers into a single volume 30 essays which embody the history of hotography. Contributors include: Niepce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston. Abbot, Barthes, and others. Their writings encompass the technical origin and development of the medium, the aesthetic perspective of many...
Franklin Watts, 2006. — 88 p. — (Inventions That Shaped the World). From the daguerreotype of the early 1800s to twentieth-century cell phones that snap pictures, photography has been used to record everything from family parties to historical milestones. This book examines the development of cameras and explores how various models have allowed photographers to maintain a...
Yale University Press, 2003. — 429 p. Over the past 150 years, Japanese photographers have created an impressive body of work that ranges from dignified imperial portraits to sweeping urban panoramas, from early ethereal landscapes to modern urban mysteries. Despite the richness, significance, and variety of this work, however, it has largely been neglected in Western histories...
Little Brown & Co, 1994. — 40 p. — (Portraits of Women Artists for Children). The author of the Portraits of Women Artists series juxtaposes the details of Depression photographer Dorothea Lange's life with the images of her work to show how the photographer used the camera as an instrument of social change. An excellent introduction to the life and work of this documentary...
University of California Press, 2003. — 357 p. From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance — from strikes to stoic determination. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a stirring and elegant...
National Geographic, 2001. — 264 p. A relevatory combination of bold photographs, most previously unpublished, and compelling text details the surprising story behind National Geographic's first years of groundbreaking photography, from science and industry to exotic cultures and wildlife, and explores the impact these photographs have had on how we perceive the world and...
Franklin Watts, 1997. — 68 p. — (First Books - Biographies). A biography of the pioneering photographer, who is known for his unique portrayal of the Civil War, as well as for portraits of such personalities as Lincoln, Grant, Lee, and others. In 1861, Mathew Brady and his crew took to the battlefields of the Civil War to capture on film the bloodiest conflict in American...
Childrens Press, 2001. — 38 p. — (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists). Discusses the life and work of the twentieth century American photographer, Dorothea Lange. Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists, Dorothea Lange is a nice edition in this fantastic collection by Mike Venezia. These books are perfect for exposing elementary and junior high aged students to a...
Running Press, 2013. — 416 p. George Hurrell (1904?-1992) was the creator of the Hollywood glamour portrait, the maverick artist who captured movie stars of the most exalted era in Hollywood history with bold contrast and seductive poses. This lavishly illustrated book spans Hurrell’s entire career, from his beginnings as a society photographer to his finale as the celebrity...
Running Press, 2013. — 416 p. George Hurrell (1904?-1992) was the creator of the Hollywood glamour portrait, the maverick artist who captured movie stars of the most exalted era in Hollywood history with bold contrast and seductive poses. This lavishly illustrated book spans Hurrell’s entire career, from his beginnings as a society photographer to his finale as the celebrity...
The Country Press, 1896. — 186 p. The art possibilities of photography, although fairly demonstrated, are not yet fairly recognised, or sought after. How to use the camera and chemicals is not all the knowledge required by a photographer to make him an artist, any more than knowing how to use pigments and brushes is all a painter requires to produce pidfures. To "take" a mere...
Daylight Books, 2015. — 176 p. Harvey Wang explores the shift from film to digital through a collection of portraits and interviews with more than forty prominent photographers. From Darkroom to Daylight is "at once an homage to the analog world of film photography, a capsule history of the medium's digital revolution, and an engaging conversation with noted photographers about...
The Herbert Press, 1986. — 144 p. In a highly original exhibition and this accompanying catalog, the author contrasts the styles of British and American pictorial photography from 1839 to the present, carefully juxtaposing 100 examples from the portraiture, still-life, landscape, and architecture genres. The halftone reproductions are small but adequate. Weaver derives his...
Da Capo Press, 2002. — 256 p. For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival. "If it...
Hanover House, 1959. — 136 p. Dust jacket notes: "Weegee has long been recognized as one of the world's best, and certainly most imaginative, photographers. A brilliant innovator, he looks upon photography as the youngest of the arts. In his hands the camera has become a creative instrument. By originating new ideas or devices, or by using in new ways those already in...
American Association for State and Local History, 1977. — 248 p. Old photographs offer the past to us in a way that words cannot, and yet old photographs are by far the more perishable resource. Until now, there has been no guide for the growing number of people — collectors, archivists, librarians, curators, and historians — who work with historical photographs. That guide now...
Carolrhoda Books, 1998. — 112 p. Bourke-White's photographs documented the history of her times, from the excitement of technology and the drama of skyscrapers to the hardship of the Depression, the horror of Buchenwald, and the sorrow of South African gold miners. This readable biography shows how she influenced her profession with her development of the photo-essay at Life...
Piper & Carter, 1890. — 344 p. No previous history of photography, that I am aware of, has ever assumed the form of a reminiscence, nor have I met with a photographic work, of any description, that is so strictly built upon a chronological foundation as the one now placed in the hands of the reader. I therefore think, and trust, that it will prove to be an acceptable and...
Harper Design, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-0062795571. The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier. Photographer Vivian Maier’s allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story — the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer — has only been pieced together from...
Aperture, 1991. — 612 p. For more than fifteen years, Edward Weston kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, his society, and his medium. Seldom has an artist written about his life as vividly, intimately, or sensitively. His journal has become a classic of photographic literature. A towering figure in twentieth-century photography, Weston sought to...
Knopf, 1985. — 384 p. The legendary war photographer Robert Capa carried into his personal life the same remarkable vitality that characterizes his pictures. Driven from his native Hungary by political oppression, he was first recognized for photographing the Spanish Civil War. In 1938 he was in China recording the Japanese invasion. During World War II he was in London, North...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 145 p. Since he first dreamed of a career in photography, Guy Gillette has traveled regularly to his wife’s family’s ranch, located outside the small town of Crockett, Texas. When Gillette first came to the Porter Place, as the ranch has always been known, he began to photograph the Porter family and their land. Thanks to Gillette’s sense...
University of North Texas Press, 2016 — 197 p. The Byrd Williams Collection at the University of North Texas contains more than 10,000 prints and 300,000 negatives, accumulated by four generations of Texas photographers, all named Byrd Moore Williams. Beginning in the 1880s in Gainesville, the four Byrds photographed customers in their studios, urban landscapes, crime scenes,...
University of North Texas Press, 2016 — 224 p. The Byrd Williams Collection at the University of North Texas contains more than 10,000 prints and 300,000 negatives, accumulated by four generations of Texas photographers, all named Byrd Moore Williams. Beginning in the 1880s in Gainesville, the four Byrds photographed customers in their studios, urban landscapes, crime scenes,...
W.W.Norton & Company, 2009. — 288 p. As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis came to the realization that images of black beauty, female and male, simply did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis examined everything from vintage ladies’ journals to black newspapers, and started what would become a lifelong quest. With more than two...
W.W. Norton, 2001. — 368 p. Reflections in Black, the first comprehensive history of black photographers, is Deborah Willis's long-awaited, groundbreaking assemblage of photographs of African American life from 1840 to the present. Willis, a curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution, has selected nearly 600 stunning images that give us rich, hugely moving glimpses...
Harry N. Abrams, 1993. — 200 p. The career of the African-American photographer James VanDerZee spanned 80 years, from his turn-of-the-century photographs of family and friends in Lenox, Massachusetts, to his late portraits, made when he was in his nineties, of Bill Cosby, Eubie Blake and Jean-Michel Basquiat. VanDerZee is best remembered as the eyes of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Exeter Books, 1980. — 192 p. 'History of Photography' not only traces the development of the image making processes and the photographic equipment which evolved from them, but also chronicles the lives of the photographers and inventors who helped to shape the course of photographic history, men like Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Eastman, Fenton and Capa. This absorbing book also...
Asian Highlands Perspectives, 2014. — 146 p. A superb collection of 150 black-and-white photographs of 1930s Ladakh, capturing its final days as a hub of trade routes between Tibet and Kashmir, India and Yarkand. These portraits of people, landscapes and Buddhist ceremonies taken by amateur photographer Rupert Wilmot, are notable for their careful composition, fine detail and...
Arno Press, 1973. — 152 p. Facsimile reprint of the 1868 New York edition published by Scovill Manufacturing Company. Part of the Literature of Photography series. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
E.L.Wilson, 1893. — 382 p. Photography grows so rapidly, and so continuously widens its usefulness, that an occasional lesson-book must be issued in order that the working votaries of the art may keep at least alongside. During an intimate connection with it for over twenty years, nearly eighteen of which have been expended in the very whirl of its progress,—indeed, with an...
St Martin's Press, 1999. — 148 p. A fascinating and invaluable compilation of rare photographs of Civil War era African-Americans provides insight into the lives people lived, showing them in daily situations and in their regular attire, and bringing the past clearly into focus. Hidden Witness consists of reproductions of 69 photographs--almost all from attorney Wilson's...
Bloomsbury, 2013. — 288 p. In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Henry James as a boy with his father, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allan Poe, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed in Mathew Brady's studio. But it was during...
Bloomsbury, 2013. — 288 p. In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Henry James as a boy with his father, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allan Poe, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed in Mathew Brady's studio. But it was during...
Yale University Press, 1998. — 252 p. Julia Margaret Cameron's women are, in a word, lovely. The 19th-century photographer was best known in her lifetime for her portraits of such major figures of the era as Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Alfred Tennyson--many of whom were her friends and neighbors on England's Isle of Wight....
Prestel, 2007. — 264 p. Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. This book brings together almost three hundred images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an...
Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1875. — 178 p. The object of this, the first gift-book of its character, is to place before the public a selection of the most celebrated of the world's beauties and wonders, which being all pictures of the unerring sun's work are necessarily true to the places they represent, without any flattery. The Editor's aim has been to make the selection pleasing...
9th Edition. — American photographic publishing co., 1922. — 138 p. As Mr. Woodbury stated in his introduction to the original edition of this book, in order to avoid misunderstanding, it would be well to explain at the outset that it is not intended as an instruction book in the art of photography in any sense of the word. It is assumed that the reader has already mastered the...
Enslow Publishers, 2002. — 120 p. — (People to Know). Presents the life and accomplishments of photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, known for her photographic interpretations of war, revolution, and poverty.
Thames & Hudson, 1999. — 152 p. Every year since 1955 an international jury has met in Holland under the auspices of the World Press Photo Foundation to choose the world's finest press photographs. Publishing the results of the 42nd World Press Photo Contest, this book contains the best press photographs from 1998 - some 200 pictures submitted by photojournalists, picture...
Thames & Hudson, 2001. — 156 p. For more than fifty years an international jury has met in Holland under the auspices of the World Press Photo Foundation to choose the world's finest photographs. This is universally recognized as the definitive competition for photographic reporting, and photojournalists, newspapers, and magazines throughout the world submit thousands of images...
Verlag für Kulturforshung, 1931. — 328 s. „Nichts anderes als der brennende Wunsch, das ersehnte, das geliebte Weib bildlich darzustellen, hat den Menschen zum Künstler gemacht und ihn dazu angetrieben, die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers, die sein Auge und durch sein Auge seine Sinne reizte, nachzubilden und bildhaft darzustellen.“ So heißt es im Vorwort dieses gesuchten...
Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000. — 152 p. This is not a how-to book, as the title might suggest, but a brief overview of the history of photography that discusses the major trends and technical processes involved with documentary and art photography. Yorath (photography, Northbrook Coll., Sussex, UK) here presents an interesting graphic layout and a humorous "For...
ECW Press, 1988. — 190 p. Why are contemporary writers of fiction in Canada so obsessed with photography? Timothy Findley's The Wars, Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women all present the photograph as a virtual analogue to the act of creating narrative. Lorraine York examines four Canadian...
Reaktion Books, 2017. — 224 p. The meeting of photography and Germany evokes pioneering modernist pictures from the Weimar era and colossal digital prints that define the medium's art practice today. It also recalls horrifying documents of wartime atrocity and the relentless surveillance of East German citizens. Photography and Germany broadens these perceptions by examining...
Bates College Museum of Art, 2004. — 52 p. The Bates College Museum of Art's exhibition, Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change, reveals the depth of resources that can come together in an academic and creative collaboration. The exhibition, curated by Gu Zheng, an academic, leading photographer, and social critic in China, features the work of seven...
Seaver Books, 1988. — 196 p. The French art director and book designer Massin has selected over 200 photographs by Emile Zola, known for his writing which had received world recognition by 1888 when his obsession with photography started. In addition to taking pictures of the world at large - the World's Fair of 1900, the then new and controversial Eiffel Tower, the streets,...
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