Discusses the history and process of making various types of nineteenth-century photographs, and gives advice on collecting and preserving them

Product Description: Cyanide & Spirits is a fascinating humourously written view of early photography. You'll learn about spirit photography and prison portraits, back-street operators and the pros and cons of smoking in the darkroom. This book is a must for anyone who still believes that our photographic forefathers were nothing more than dour and solemn moralists, and will be appreciated by those who already know that what early photographers were really interested in is a lot different than what most contemporary historians would have us believe...read more

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A depiction of the esteemed Victorian portrait photographer describes her marriage to Charles Hay Cameron, her affectionate correspondence with scientist Sir John Herschel, the technologies that shaped her career, and her work as chronicled by niece Virginia Woolf.

Text and illustrations celebrate the masters of photography, and includes brief profiles and critical analysis of those artists mentioned.

Product Description: This comprehensive study offers detailed analysis of how classical painting challenged, resisted, and was influenced by the emergence of photography. Photography divided opinion since its invention; some saw it as an invaluable tool in the enhancement of artistic production, for others it was too mechanical to ever represent the grand concept of "art...read more

Product Description: This new and beautiful book traces the development of pioneer photographs and the miniature art cases that were manufactured to protect and display them. Icons of their time, photographic cases are rich in history and design. Not limited to the cases themselves, this book explores various aspects of the Daguerreian era (1840-1870) and includes information on one-of-a-kind photographic forms, artists and casemakers, die-engraving, and all components of wood-framed, thermoplastic, and novelty cases...read more

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Looks at the early history of photography in the United States, the photographers who recorded life on the frontier, and how their vision and artistry shaped public opinion about the West. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In the last decades of the nineteenth century, photography underwent one of the most momentous transformations in its history, a renegotiation of the camera’s relationship to the visible world. Reasoned and Unreasoned Images considers in detail the work of three photographic investigators who developed new uses for the medium that centered on “the photography of the invisible”: Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey...read more

Product Description: This is the first publication of the two most important notebooks created by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), the inventor of negative/positive photography. Notebooks P and Q span the period from the first public announcement of photography in 1839 through the 1843 plateau of Talbot's researches...read more

Follows the developments in the art and science of photography from the invention of the wet-collodion process through the evolution of dry plates

Product Description: Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text—whether in the family album or daily newspaper—that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the evidence of the photograph itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book covers the history of photography from its primitive beginning to the present day, including the use of electronic techniques. Also included are the basic development of cameras, film, film processing, and photo techniques...read more