Title & Author:

Photography, essays & images : illustrated readings in the history of photography / edited by Beaumont Newhall.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society, ©1980.

Description:

327 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Photography predicted / Tiphaigne de La Roche (1760) -- An account of a method of copying paintings upon glass, and of making profiles, by agency of light upon nitrate of silver / Thomas Wedgwood and Sir Humphry Davy (1802) -- The first news accounts of the daguerreotype (1839) -- Some account of the art of photogenic drawing, or, the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves without the aid of the artist's pencil / William Henry Fox Talbot (1839) -- The process of calotype photogenic drawing / William Henry Fox Talbot (1841) -- The early history of photography in the United States / Albert Sands Southworth (1871) -- Brady, the grand old man of American photography: an interview by George Alfred Townsend (1891) -- The use of collodion in photography / Frederick Scott Archer (1851) -- The stereoscope and the stereograph / Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859) -- Doings of the sunbeam / Oliver Wendell Holmes (1863) -- Upon photography in an artistic view, and its relation to the arts / Sir William J. Newton (1853) -- Photography / Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (1857) -- A portfolio of photographs from the George Frederick Pollock album (1856) -- Oscar Gustav Rejlander / Henry Peach Robinson (1890) -- Nadar's portraits at the exhibition of the French Society of Photography / Philippe Burty (1859) -- Photography / Charles Baudelaire (1859) -- The art of photography / Francis Frith (1859) -- Photographs from the high Rockies: from Harper's new monthly magazine, September 1869 -- To my patrons / Edward L. Wilson (1871) -- The annals of my glass house / Julia Margaret Cameron (1874) -- Muybridge's motion pictures: news accounts (1880) -- An experiment with gelatino bromide / Richard Leach Maddox (1871) -- The hand camera: a portfolio of catalog illustrations (1880-1900) -- The amateur photographer / Alexander Black (1887) -- Flashes from the slums: pictures taken in dark places by the lightning process / Jacob A. Riis (1888) -- Photography, a pictorial art / Peter Henry Emerson (1886) -- Pictorial photography / Alfred Stieglitz (1899) -- Eduard J. Steichen / Ernest Juhl (1902) -- Frederick H. Evans on pure photography (1900) -- A plea for straight photography / Sadakichi Hartmann (1904) -- The photo-secession at Buffalo: a portfolio of photographs purchased by the Albright Art Gallery in 1910 -- The function of the camera / Dixon Scott (1906) -- The future of pictorial photography / Alvin Langdon Coburn (1916) -- Stieglitz / Paul Rosenfeld (1921) -- Photography / Paul Strand (1917) -- Random notes on photography / Edward Weston (1922) -- The work of Man Ray / Robert Desnos (1929) -- The new realism -the object: its plastic and cinematic value / Fernand Léger (1926) -- Eugène Atget / Berenice Abbott (1929) -- The future of the photographic process / Laszló Moholy-Nagy (1929) -- The international exhibition "Film und Foto," Stuttgart, 1929: a portfolio -- Group f.64 / John Paul Edwards (1935) -- A personal credo / Ansel Adams (1943) -- The assignment I'll never forget / Dorothea Lange (1960) -- The FSA photographers / Edward Steichen (1938) -- Photojournalism in the 1920s: a conversation between / Felix H. Man, photographer, and Stefan Lorant, picture editor (1970) -- Brassai / Nancy Newhall (1952) -- Vision plus the camera: Henri Cartier-Bresson / Beaumont Newhall (1946) -- W. Eugene Smith: a great photographer at work: an interview / with Arthur Goldsmith (1956) -- Time in New England in the making: excerpts from correspondence between Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall (1945-50) -- In 1943 and 1944 a great change took place / Aaron Siskind (1963) -- Found photographs / Minor White (1957) -- Walker Evans, visiting artist: a transcript of his discussion with the students of the University of Michigan (1971).
Also issued online.

Summary:

Brings to life the scientists, artists, philosophers, innovators, and entrepreneurs who developed the art and science of photography.

ISBN:

0870703854 (pbk.)
9780870703850 (pbk.)
0870703870
9780870703874
0436305062
9780436305061

Subject:

Photography.
Photographie.
Photographie Histoire.
Fotografia.
História da fotografia.
Photography History.
Photography, Artistic History.

Form/genre:

History.
Essays.

Added entries:

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993, editor.
Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993

Photography, essays and images

Holdings:

Location: Library main 10970
Call No.: ID:87-B13977
Status: Available