The history of photography from the earliest use of the camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914, by Helmut Gernsheim in collaboration with Alison Gernsheim.

Main entry:

Gernsheim, Helmut, 1913-1995.

Title & Author:

The history of photography from the earliest use of the camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914, by Helmut Gernsheim in collaboration with Alison Gernsheim.

Publication:

London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1955.

Description:

xxviii, 395 pages illustrations 28 cm

Notes:
Second ed. published in 1969 under title: The history of photography from the camera obscura to the beginning of the modern era.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-376. Bibliographical footnotes).
The Prehistory of photography -- Photochemical investigations -- Phantoms of Photography -- The First Conception of photography -- The Invention of photography -- The First Photographer -- The First practicable process of photography -- Negative/positive process on paper -- Direct positives on paper -- Other independent inventors -- The Early years of photography -- The Daguerreotype in Great Britian, 1839-c.1857 -- The Calotype and other paper processes in Great Britiain, 1841-c.1857 -- The Progress of photography on paper in other countries -- The Introduction of photography on glass -- The Collodion Period -- The Popularization of photography -- Portrait photography-A new industry -- 'High Art" photography -- Stereoscopic photography -- Instantaneous and news photography -- Landscape and architectural photography -- The Cate-de-visite period -- Soem famous portrait photographers -- Mammoth and miniature photographers -- The Evolution of dry plates -- Permanent photographs -- The Gelatine Period -- Emulusion papers and mass-roduction printing -- Photography on film -- Hand, pocket, and detective cameras -- Push-button photography by articifcial light -- The Photography of movement -- Documentary and press photography -- The Birth of pictorial photography -- Photography and the printed page -- Photomechanical printing processes.
Also issued online.

Subject:

Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
Photography
Fotografie.
Geschiedenis.
FOTOGRAFIA Storia

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Gernsheim, Alison, author.
Gernsheim, Alison

Holdings:

Location: Library main 30894
Call No.: ID:88-B2840
Status: Available

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