The rise of photography, 1850-1880 : the age of collodion / Helmut Gernsheim.
By: Gernsheim, Helmut
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BookSeries: History of photography ; vol.2.Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1988Edition: Rev. 3rd ed.Description: 285 p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0500973490.Subject(s): Photography -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 770.9034 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Follows the developments in the art and science of photography from the invention of the wet-collodion process through the evolution of dry plates.
First edition published in 1955 by the Oxford University Press under title: The history of photography from the earliest use of the camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914. That edition was republished by Thames & Hudson in 1969 in a new and enlarged edition. This volume is the second part of the History and appears here as a revised third edition
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-279) and index.
The introduction of photography on glass -- Photography becomes fashionable -- Portrait photography: a new industry -- Art photography -- Stereoscopic photography -- Instantaneous photography -- News photography -- Landscape and architectural photography -- The carte-de-visite period -- Some famous portrait photographers -- Mammoth and miniature photographs -- The evolution of dry plates -- Permanent photographs.