Main entry:

International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.

Title & Author:

Photographs : George Eastman House, Rochester, NY / [[compiled by] William S. Johnson, Mark Rice, Carla Williams].

Publication:

Köln ; London : Taschen, ©1999.

Description:

766 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 20 cm

Notes:
Cover title: Photography from 1839 to today.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Anthony Bannon -- The Collections at George Eastman House / Marianne Fulton -- A Legacy in the Making / Therese Mulligan -- The Blind Man's Elephant / David Wooters -- All Things under the Sun -- Daguerre and the Daguerreotype -- Southworth and Hawes -- Talbot and the Paper Negative -- Hill and Adamson -- The Calotype in France -- An Even Greater Measure -- Italy -- Rome -- Italy -- Pompeii -- Italy -- Florence -- Italy -- Venice -- The Middle East -- Egypt -- The Middle East -- Palestine and Syria, Baalbek, Palmyra, Jerusalem -- The Middle East -- Turkey -- India -- The Far East -- Japan -- The Far East -- China -- The Americas -- The American West -- California and the Far West -- Technology and War -- Technology -- Crimea -- The American Civil War -- A Matter of Fact -- Photography's Public and Private Lives -- Artful Ambitions -- An Art of Its Own -- Our Modern World -- The Object Photographed -- Photography Sells -- Public Record -- Candid Witness -- The Visual Mind -- America Seen -- The World Beat -- Peers and Predecessors.

Summary:

"Located in Rochester, New York, George Eastman House is one of the world's premier institutions for the study, exhibition, and preservation of photography. Opened in 1949 in the home of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company, Eastman House was the first museum in the United States dedicated to photography and motion pictures. This publication offers an insider's view into the depth and scope of the photography collection, tracing photography's rich history from its distant origins to modern digital imaging. Book jacket."--Jacket.

ISBN:

3822870730 (paperback)
9783822870730 (paperback)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic History Sources.
Photographie Histoire 19e siècle Catalogues.
Photographie Histoire 20e siècle Catalogues.
Collections de photographies New York (État) Rochester Catalogues.
Photographie artistique Histoire Sources.
Photography, Artistic

Form/genre:

Catalogs.
Commemorative publications.
catalogs (documents)
History
Sources
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Johnson, William S.
Rice, Mark.
Williams, Carla, 1965-
Photography from 1839 to today.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 210094
Call No.: TR6.U6 R6 1999
Status: Available