materials such as books and articles, online and printed, on photography or related topics.
Being a relatively small book, 245 pages, it couldn’t really try to be a comprehensive approach to the vast subject that it addresses. From there the name “a concise history”. But what is interesting in it is that once admitted that condition, there is a insightful history of ideas in photography with some very well…
A book with a collection of founding texts from the history of photography. It seems that everything that was important is inside.
This is a book that covers both the historical and practical aspects for anyone who wants to try printing using one of these two processes, albumen or salted paper. It is very detailed and well written.
A very practical book with good advice on the technique of Gum Bichromate. From paper preparation to archiving. Some more in-depth considerations on sensitometry and trichromia using the process complete a book that can be a guide for the beginner and also a roadmap for anyone who wants to explore the process further.
The book first deals with the mergers that originated the giant Zeiss Ikon and then analyzes company’s extensive portfolio until the beginning of World War II. It is interesting on commenting the strategy, the mistakes and successes of what was arguably the most innovative camera manufacturer in the first half of the twentieth century. From…
A book rich in information about lives and periods in the history of photography. The analysis is poor and dated. It assumes that all human motivations, including their relationship with photography, are economic and aimed at social ascension.
How photography and painting divided the universe of images is the subject of this book. It’s common to find references to inflammatory positions that saw photography as a great threat to the arts. But this book shows us another side: how many renowned artists, with greater or lesser awareness, have used photography, or a photographic gaze, in their productions.
This is a classic. Published in 1965, 1971, and 1986—I’m not sure if there were any other editions. It takes two approaches—one technical and the other artistic—and uses them to trace the history of the medium from its invention through the postwar period.
This is a fundamental book. It studies the question of verisimilitude between image and object and the means by which it is constructed. It studies the weight of conventions and the role of learning and mental operations that contribute too much to our assessment of the visual stimuli we receive. Vision is posited as cultural…
The book is the catalog of what was probably the most influential photography exhibition in history. The Family of Man represents the pinnacle of humanist photography.
This is a classic and very useful work from Anselm Adams (1902 – 1984), north american photographer, in which he explains his Zone System. It is a working procedure that starts by evaluating the film exposure considering:
A compendium of portraits taken in the 1940s in the United States with all the details of light, camera, lens and even film used.