Main entry:

Gernsheim, Helmut, 1913-1995.

Title & Author:

A concise history of photography / [by] Helmut Gernsheim in collaboration with Alison Gernsheim.

Publication:

New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [1965]
©1965

Description:

314 pages : illustrations (some of which are in color), facsimiles, portraits (some of which are in color) ; 22 cm

Series:

The world of art library: general

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index.
The technical evolution of photography -- The pre-history of photography -- The camera obscura -- Photochemistry -- The invention of photography -- The earliest attempts at photography -- The introduction of photography on metal -- The introduction of photography on paper -- The introduction of photography on glass -- The introduction of photography on film -- The evolution of equipment -- The evolution of colour photography -- The artistic achievements of photography -- Pictures and their makers up to 1914 -- The daguerreotype -- Photographs on paper -- Photographs by the collodion and gelatine processes -- Exploration and topographical -- Landscape -- Architecture -- Portraiture and genre -- War reportage -- Social documentation -- Photography of movement -- Pictorial photography -- The new amateurs -- Naturalism and impressionism -- Pictures and their makers: the modern period -- The revolution in photography -- New objectivity -- Contemporary portraiture -- Fotoform -- Reportage -- Colour photography.

Subject:

Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
Photography.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Gernsheim, Alison, author.
World of art library: general.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 43712
Call No.: ID:89-B341
Status: Available