ebook img

Pioneers of Photography: An Album of Pictures and Words PDF

196 Pages·1976·16.37 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview Pioneers of Photography: An Album of Pictures and Words

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

See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.