196 results for "History of Photography books" between $10.00 and $150.00

A simple truth: we reflect ideas that influence us. What we love—our fixations and our obsessions—all are to be seen in the things we do and can be found in the things we create. History is a repository for those influences and obsessions. In history we clearly see the wreckage and reasoning of bygone eras. But the telling of history is not a static enterprise. History evolves over time to explain the past to a contemporary audience eager to understand the origin of its own obsessions and perceptions...

Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses. For the avant-garde, the challenges of the new media were the modern in its most concentrated form, but even for aesthetically...

This is an art historical treatment of the history of photography from its earliest manifestations to the 1970's. Illustrated in black & white and color. 370 photographs. This is a very good cloth copy, in a very good, but a little edge-worn dust jacket. Remainder dot to bottom page-edge. 10" high 8" wide, 55 text and note pages + plates.

The book was written to introduce students to photography. It does not require that students possess any technical know-how and can be taught without referring to techniques in photography. Incorporating the latest research and international uses of photography, the text surveys the history of photography in such a way that students can gauge the medium's long-term multifold developments and see the historical and intellectual contexts in which photographers lived and worked. It also provides a unique...

San Francisco-based artist Kota Ezawa draws on iconic imagery to create simplified renderings that comment on the influence of television, film and photography in shaping collective experience. Ezawa grew up in Germany, studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf before moving to San Francisco in 1994. Since that time, he has worked and exhibited in a number of media, including film and, more recently, digital animation. Using well-known films, videos, and photographs, Ezawa explores the appropriation...

Description Table of Contents Author Bios The history of photography in Mexico was a largely untold story until the 1994 publication of Olivier Debroise' Fuga Mexicana, un recorrido por la fotografiacute;a en Meacute;xico. Based on ten years' research in public and private photographic archives in Mexico, the United States, Guatemala, and Europe, Fuga Mexicana provided the first comprehensive survey of Mexican photography from the advent of the daguerreotype in 1839 to the present. Now this benchmark...

Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. Through more than 300 works by such master photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, Timothy O'Sullivan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene...

A World History of Photography encompasses the entire range of the medium, from the camera lucida to the latest computer technology. This acclaimed work features more than 800 photographs, providing outstanding coverage of every aspect of photography and includes some of the most important images ever captured on film.

Written by a team of distinguished Japanese and Western scholars, this book establishes that photography began to play a vital role in Japanese culture soon after its introduction to Japan in the 1850s. Illustrated essays discuss the mediums evolution and aesthetic shifts in relation to the nations historical and cultural developments; the interaction of Japanese photographers with Western photographers; the link between photography and other Japanese art forms; and photography as a record and...

In a set of forty-three pen & ink line drawings, Charles Woodard levels the history of photography through his own unique brand of stylistic primitivism. Originally produced as study aids for a 19th and 20th century history of photography survey course, these comical (and sometimes tragic) ball-pen ink drawings seamlessly bring together photographers as stylistically disparate as Robert Capa and Ed Ruscha. By shifting these crude renderings into the context of the book format, Woodard asks us to...

Henry N. Abrams 1977, hardcover, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8", 176 pages, black and white (and some color) illustrations Good condition; inside pages clean. Dust jacket has signs of wear; some creasing/tearing/chipping.

Description: Previous owner's stamp inside front cover else clean tight bright gilt on spine bright, dust jacket clean with large piece missing from lower spine and onto front cover, rest of the dj is okay in archival mylar cover. 330 text illustrations, 395pp. plus section of 359 photographs on enamel stock. In this exhaustive work the authors trace the development of photography from its prehistory in the evanescent image thrown by the camera obscura, through the many stages which led by trial...

This is the first comprehensive overview of the major publications that influenced Swiss photography in the 20th century. Seventy historic photographic books are introduced alongside numerous images, interpreted by expert specialists. The selected works offer a framework for a fresh look at the development of photographic styles and forms of expression, from the beginnings of modern photographic books in the 1930s to their ascendance in the present day. In-depth summaries covering the various epochs...

Description Table of Contents Author Bios In 'staged' photography the artist takes on the role of a director, creating or staging an image. This text traces the history of the staged photograph, focusing on such key themes as the artist as actor, art historical imagery, and narratives and allegories. Setting the scene Staged photography in the Victorian album Modernity and the staged photograph, 1900-1965 The artful disposition : theatricality, cinema,...

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 the Far East. It investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placing it in historical context.

Building With Light: An International History of Architectural Photography