A history of photography : from 1839 to the present
William Johnson (Author), Mark Rice (Author), Carla Williams (Author), Therese Mulligan (Editor), David Wooters (Editor)
George Eastman - the founder of Kodak - died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film. This title shows in chronological order the most impressive images and the most important developments in the art of light that is photography
History
765 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 21 cm
9783836540995, 9783822847770, 3836540991, 3822847771
794137174
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
Acknowledgements
About this publication
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