Main entry:

Hirsch, Robert, 1949- author.

Title & Author:

Seizing the light : a history of photography / Robert Hirsch.

Publication:

Boston : McGraw-Hill, ©2000.

Description:

xiii, 530 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-491) and index.
Advancing toward photography : the birth of modernity -- The daguerreotype : image and object -- Calotype rising : the arrival of photography -- Pictures on glass : the wet-plate process -- Prevailing events/picturing calamity -- A new medium of communication : art or industry? -- Standardizing the practice : A transparent truth -- New ways of visualizing time and space -- Suggesting the subject : the evolution of pictorialism -- Modernism : Industrial beauty -- The new culture of light -- Social documents -- Nabbing time : anticipating the moment -- Photography and the halftone -- The atomic age -- New frontiers : expanding boundaries -- Changing realities -- Thinking about photography.

Summary:

Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography provides a thought-provoking, accurate, and accessible introduction to the photographic arts for all readers. With stunning images and commentary by hundreds of international artists, the text clearly and concisely provides the building blocks necessary to critically explore photographic history from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0697143619 (paperback)
9780697143617 (paperback)

Subject:

Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
Photography.
Fotografie.

Form/genre:

Reference works.
History.
Ouvrages de référence.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320332
Call No.: 320332
Status: Available