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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.

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…

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.

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…

A book with a collection of founding texts from the history of photography. It seems that everything that was important is inside.

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 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…

A compendium of portraits taken in the 1940s in the United States with all the details of light, camera, lens and even film used.

Histoire de la Découverte de la Photographie | Georges Potonniée A good history of photography focusing on its discovery. The author begins by defining photography, talking about the camera obscura, mechanical means of reproduction of drawings and his major focus is in the first experiments of Wedgwood and then Niépce and Daguerre. Published in 1929….

Biography of Thomas Wedgwood with a chapter about his works to photography and also an appendices named “A Mythical Account of T. Wedgwood Photographic Work” in which the author dismisses theories about an early discovery of photography made by Wedgwood. It contains the report wrote by Humphrey Davy in 1802 summarizing the real outcome of…

The book focuses on chemical side of photography, there is not talk about lenses or cameras. The author, himself a photographer and colourist, was a teenager when daguerrotypes were spreading into UK and he mixes historical events with his personal experiences in a very nice manner. There is a useful chronological record with main facts…