Photographic lenses in 19th century Germany and Austria | Corrado D’Agostini
19th century German and Austrin optics. Detailed photos, documents, catalogs and an excellent bibliography. A must have by the collector and scholar of the subject
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Vernaculaires | Clément Chéroux
The book discusses vernacular photography as photography that was not intended as a work of art. It includes amateur photography by ordinary people, but also professional photography with a utilitarian purpose.
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Photographic Lenses of the 1800’s in France | Corrado d’Agostini
Excellent book plenty of information about the optical industry in France in the 19th century. It has large and clear photos very helpful in the identification old lenses. Lots of information about manufacturers and leading industry’s opticians. Corrado D’Agostini is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Florence and also collects and studies photographic…
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La vie d’Artiste au XIXe siècle | Anne Martin-Fugier
Excellent book. Lots of information that transports you into the art market environment in the nineteenth century. Talks about who embraced the artistic career, which were the prospects, which were the learning venues, how art was shown, how the salons worked, what about the relationship with collectors, with models, between masters and novices, how women…
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George Eastman | Elizabeth Brayer
Regarded as the best and most comprehensive biography of George Eastman. I bought this book to better understand the thinking of this man, who played such an important role in the great transformation that essentially created amateur photography as we know it today.
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Zeiss Compendium East & West: 1940-1972 | Charles M. Barringer e Marc James Small
Zeiss Ikon was a photographic camera producer, result of a merge of three other important makers. It had a difficult to overestimate role in the history of photography. This book is about its last decades and analyses how its incredibly diversified offer, in concepts and formats, ended up being unbearable and in conflict with profitability. It…
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A History of Photography | George Eastman House
It’s a good reference book to have and flick through, but don’t expect any new points of view or depth on any topic, as the scope is from 1939 to the 1990s. Although small in size, with 760 pages, it is very well printed and very rich in the images chosen to illustrate it.
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A new history of photography | Michel Frizot
Excellent history of photography. Organised by the French historian Michel Frizot, the book features in its almost 800 pages the contribution of many other authors. It is, in fact, a compilation of 41 independent essays depicting a panorama about the relation of image making and society transformations since the appearance of the first photographic processes….
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The Science of Art | Martin Kemp
An excellent inventory of the techniques and tools used to understand and produce naturalistic images. It starts with linear perspective and goes up to the invention of photography and also a discussion of color.
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La Photographie en France | André Rouillé
An invaluable resource for anyone interested in researching the early decades of photography in France. The book is a collection of period publications featuring the leading figures and articles from the bulletins of the French Photographic Society and the numerous periodicals and books of the time.
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Les Multiples Inventions de la Photographie
Publication after a colloquium held in France in 1989 commemorating the 150 years of public disclosure of photography according to the Daguerre process. There are several texts referring to conferences of the following authors grouped by themes: PHILOSOPHY OF INVENTIONS Andreas HAUS A.D. COLEMAN Jerzy A. WOJCIECHOWSKI HISTORICAL ASPECTS Bernard MARBOT Sylvain MORAND Mike WEAVER…
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A history of the photographic lens | Rufolf Kingslake
An essential book and very pleasant reading. It is a good balance between technical aspects of lens construction, the challenges posed by the problems involved, and the people, companies and all those who left their mark in history of image making.
