The rise of photography : 1850-1880, the age of collodion.

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Author / Creator:Gernsheim, Helmut, 1913-1995
Edition:Rev. 3rd ed.
Imprint:London ; New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1988, c1987.
Description:285 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 31 cm.
Language:English
Series:The History of photography / Helmut Gernsheim ; v. 2
Gernsheim, Helmut, 1913- History of photography. 1982 ; v. 2.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/959170
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Other title:Age of collodion.
ISBN:0500973490
Notes:"The History of Photography ... was first published in 1955 by the Oxford University Press, and republished in a new and enlarged edition in 1969 by Thames and Hudson. The second part of the History appears here in a revised third edition"--T.p. verso.
Translated from Italian.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-279) and index.
Review by Choice Review

This revision of part of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim's History of Photography (1955) incorporates new biographical information about several photographers. Readers preferring factual description will find this book as useful as the older edition; readers requiring interpretation and analysis would do better to consult recent monographs that place major figures in context, such as Mike Weaver's Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815-1879 (CH, Dec '84); Roger Taylor's George Washington Wilson (1981); and Stephanie Spencer's O.G. Rejlander, Photography as Art (CH, Dec '85). Gernsheim divides material by subject (fine art, news, instantaneous, etc.), and technical processes are strongly emphasized. The bibliography is brief; it would have been useful had more of the major books and articles of the last decade been included. The numerous illustrations are superior in quality. Level: lower-division undergraduate. -S. Spencer, North Carolina State University

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