A world history of photography / by Naomi Rosenblum.

By:

Rosenblum, Naomi [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; London : Abbeville Press, 2007.Edition: 4th edDescription: 712 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmContent type:

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ISBN:

9780789209375

Subject(s):

Photography -- History

DDC classification:

770.9

Contents:

1. The early years: technology, vision, users 1839-1875 -- 2. A plenitude of portraits 1839-1890 -- 3. Documentation: landscape and architecture 1839-1890 -- 4. Documentation: objects and events 1839-1890 -- 5. Photography and art: the first phase 1839-1890 -- 6. New technology, new vision, new users 1875-1925 -- 7. Art photography: another aspect 1890-1920 -- 8. Documentation: the social scene to 1945 -- 9. Art, photography, and modernism 1920-1945 -- 10. Words and pictures: photographs in print media 1920-1980 -- 11. Photography since 1950: the straight image -- 12. Photography since 1950: manipulations and color.

Summary: "This sumptuously illustrated volume, hailed as an indispensable work on the subject, has now been revised an expanded to cover images by contemporary photographers working in the twenty-first century. A World History of Photography encompasses the entire range of the medium, from the camera lucida to the latest computer technology, and from Europe and the Americas to Africa and the Far East. The book investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placing photography in historical context. Included among the more than 800 photographs by men and women are both little-known and celebrated masterpieces, arranged in stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power. Dr. Rosenblum's chronicle of photography is authoritative and unbiased, tracing both chronologically and thematically the evolution of this young art. Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communications of ideas,k Dr. Rosenblum devotes special attention to topics such as portraiture, documentation, advertising, and photojournalism, and to the camera as a medium of personal artistic expression. Profiles are provided of individual photographers who made notable contributions to the medium or epitomized a certain style."-- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	770.9 ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010570		Vanderpool, Jeff

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Previous ed.: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references, index and glossary.

"This sumptuously illustrated volume, hailed as an indispensable work on the subject, has now been revised an expanded to cover images by contemporary photographers working in the twenty-first century.
A World History of Photography encompasses the entire range of the medium, from the camera lucida to the latest computer technology, and from Europe and the Americas to Africa and the Far East. The book investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placing photography in historical context. Included among the more than 800 photographs by men and women are both little-known and celebrated masterpieces, arranged in stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power.
Dr. Rosenblum's chronicle of photography is authoritative and unbiased, tracing both chronologically and thematically the evolution of this young art. Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communications of ideas,k Dr. Rosenblum devotes special attention to topics such as portraiture, documentation, advertising, and photojournalism, and to the camera as a medium of personal artistic expression. Profiles are provided of individual photographers who made notable contributions to the medium or epitomized a certain style."-- Publisher's description.