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nPRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 31111001716081 nuiNEERSoF PHOTOGRAPHY J An Album of Pictures and Words Written and Compiled by AARON SCHARF A SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED, lively, inti- matehistoryofoneofthegreataest—hetic adventures of the modern world the makingofthe firstphotographs. Here are the fascinating early experi- ments with processing, the first primi- tiveattemptsatcolourphotography,the ingenious equipment invented for spe- — cialeffects andherearetheprintsthat resulted, nowpreciousbeyondmeasure. First-hand accounts by the pioneer photographers vividlyrecall thepursuit of a historic event, a spectacular land- scape, afleetingfacial expression. Therear—e chaptersontheworkofthe inventors Niepce, Fox Talbot, Da- — guerre, and Bayard and on the profes- sionals, like Nadar, who photographed everything from the Paris sewers (by electriclight)toSarahBernhardt.Boume made a record of the landscape of India andtheHimalayasthatwas,andperhaps still is, unequalled. The beginnings of documentary photography—John Thom- son'sLondontypesforinstance, andthe veryundocumentaryworkofJuliaMar- — garet Cameron showed two paths photography could follow. Yet another, the development of photography as an analytic technique, can be seen in the work of Marey and Muybridge. The de- velopmentofcolourphotographybrings thetexttoaclose,andaselectedbibliog- raphyroundsout the volume. Aaron Scharf, well known forhis ear- lierbooks,CreativePhotographyandArt andPhotography, was anadviserto the British BroadcastingCorporationon the programmes out of which this book grew. 180illustrations,including10' 'esinfullcolour Pioneers of nhotopraphv 770.0 SCHAR^^^-.^ .. liTPAL LIBRARY I DATE DUE PIONEERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY PIONEERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AN ALBUM OF AND WORDS PICTURES WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY AARON SCHARF HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC., PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK >?*^ Byarrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation PREVIOUSPAGE HermanKrone:selfportraitwithhis photographicequipment RIGHT SamuelA.Cooley.hisassistantsandphotographic waggons LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Scharf,Aaron,1922- Pioneersofphotography. Bibliography:p.— I. Photography History. 2. Photographers. I. BritishBroadcastingCorporation. il. Title. TR15.S34 770'.9'034 75-42216 ISBN0-8109-0408-X '' <.'*^ . LibraryofCongressCatalogueCardNumber:75-42216 Copyright © 1975The BritishBroadcastingCorporation. Publishedin1976byHarryN.Abrams,Incorporated,NewYork '>''^l*i Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthecontentsofthisbookmay bereproducedwithoutthewrittenpermissionofthepublishers PrintedandboundinJapan CONTENTS Foreword 7 Introducrion 9 I ThePencil ofNature 13 2 TheMirror with aMemory 33 3 Sun Pictures 53 4 FamousMenand FairWomen 71 5 TravellingMan 87 6 When IwasaPhotographer 103 7 TheIndelibleRecord 119 8 AnimalLocomotion 139 9 CameraWork 157 10 ColourNotes 173 i^ ListofIllustrations 186 Bibhography 189
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