Download or read book The Making of English Photography Allegories written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Sources of Photographs and Pictures written by George Walter Arthur Nunn and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impressed by Light written by Roger Taylor and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography emerged in 1839 in two forms simultaneously. In France, Louis Daguerre produced photographs on silvered sheets of copper, while in Great Britain, William Henry Fox Talbot put forward a method of capturing an image on ordinary writing paper treated with chemicals. Talbot’s invention, a paper negative from which any number of positive prints could be made, became the progenitor of virtually all photography carried out before the digital age. Talbot named his perfected invention "calotype," a term based on the Greek word for beauty. Calotypes were characterized by a capacity for subtle tonal distinctions, massing of light and shadow, and softness of detail. In the 1840s, amateur photographers in Britain responded with enthusiasm to the challenges posed by the new medium. Their subjects were wide-ranging, including landscapes and nature studies, architecture, and portraits. Glass-negative photography, which appeared in 1851, was based on the same principles as the paper negative but yielded a sharper picture, and quickly gained popularity. Despite the rise of glass negatives in commercial photography, many gentlemen of leisure and learning continued to use paper negatives into the 1850s and 1860s. These amateurs did not seek the widespread distribution and international reputation pursued by their commercial counterparts, nearly all of whom favored glass negatives. As a result, many of these calotype works were produced in a small number of prints for friends and fellow photographers or for a family album. This richly illustrated, landmark publication tells the first full history of the calotype, embedding it in the context of Britain’s changing fortunes, intricate class structure, ever-growing industrialization, and the new spirit under Queen Victoria. Of the 118 early photographs presented here in meticulously printed plates, many have never before been published or exhibited.
Download or read book The 1910s written by Paul Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of ten books, each devoted to a decade of British life and containing around 300 photographs from PA Photos' huge archives, spans the whole of the 20th Century. Hand-picked by PA Photos' own archivists, most of these images have lain unseen since they were used as news pictures when they were first taken. Each image has been scanned especially for these books, many from glass plates, ensuring the best possible quality of reproduction. It is easy, looking back, to imagine a past neatly partitioned into clearly defined periods and dominated by landmarks: wars, political upheaval and economic trends. But the archive tells a different story: alongside the major events that constitute formal history are found the smaller things that had equal - if not greater - significance for ordinary people at the time. And while the photographers were working for that moment's news rather than posterity, the camera is an undiscriminating eye that records everything in its view: to modern eyes it is often the backgrounds of these pictures, not their intended subjects, which provide the greatest fascination.
Download or read book Picture Researchers Handbook written by and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Haggadah written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anna Atkins Photographs of British Alg written by and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after William Henry Fox Talbot announced his invention of photography in 1839, the dedicated amateur botanist Anna Atkins, daughter of a prominent British scientist, began to experiment with the new medium. In 1843 she turned to her friend Sir John Herschel's recently discovered cyanotype process to publish her growing collection of native seaweeds--a daring way to introduce photography into book illustration. At regular intervals over the next decade, Atkins printed and issued these bracingly modern, deeply-hued photograms to her "botanical friends" in the form of hand-stitched fascicles of a book she entitled Photographs of British Algæ: Cyanotype Impressions . The fi rst book to be illustrated by photography and the earliest sustained application of photography to science, British Algæ is a landmark in the histories of publishing and photography. Of the nearly two dozen substantially complete or partial copies known to exist, each is distinct in its appearance and often in its number and arrange- ment of plates. The set of 13 parts she gave to Sir John Herschel--now in the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library--is especially important and was carefully preserved by generations of the Herschel family exactly as Sir John received it. This sumptuous facsimile edition reproduces the recto and verso of each plate, presenting the work as its creator intended: as bound volumes to lingered over, studied and admired, page by extraordinary page.
Download or read book Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research written by Penny Tinkler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophisticated, original and comprehensive, this book investigates photographic research practices and the conceptual and theoretical issues that underpin them. Using international case studies and ′behind the scenes′ interviews, Penny Tinkler sets out research practices and explores the possibilities, and challenges, of working with different methods and photographic sources. The book guides the reader through all aspects of doing photographic research including practical issues and ethical considerations. Key topics include: - Working with images - Generating photos in research - Managing large archives and digital databases - Reviewing personal photos - Photo-elicitation interviews Written in a clear, accessible style, this dynamic book is essential reading for students and researchers working with photographs in history and the social sciences.
Download or read book The British Journal of Photography written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Journal of Photography written by William Crookes and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century in Photographs written by Joanna Hunter and published by Times Books(NY). This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a record of the changing face of Britain in the 20th century. Each year of the century is illustrated by a single memorable image from The Times's immense photograph archive. A simple text commentary accompanies every picture, placing it deftly in its historical context and highlighting its more unusual features.
Download or read book Teaching Local History written by W. B. Stephens and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pictures from Home written by Larry Sultan and published by Mack. This book was released on 2017 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan's own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work. Significantly increasing the page count of the original book, this MACK design of Pictures From Home clarifies the multiplicity of voices - both textual and pictorial - in order to afford a fresh perspective of this seminal body of work -- Provided by the publisher.
Download or read book Picture Sources written by Special Libraries Association. Picture Division and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost England written by Philip H. Davies and published by Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1500 photographs reveal what it was like to live in Victorian and Edwardian England. The long awaited sequel to Lost London
Download or read book The Golden Age of British Photography 1839 1900 written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by Viking Penguin. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawning of an age Chauncy Hare Townshend, eyewitness -- The daguerreotype : a new wonder -- The calotype era -- The circle of William Henry Fox Talbot -- Picturesque Britain and the industrial age -- Roger Fenton and the making of a photographic establishment -- The grand tour -- High art photography : in search of an ideal -- Exploring the empire -- Aristocratic amateurs -- Julia Margaret Cameron : Christian pictorialist -- Street life -- The art of photography : fulfilling the vision -- Peter Henry Emerson : art and solitude -- James Craig Annan : brave days in Glasgow -- Paul Martin and the modern era.
Download or read book The Pencil of Nature written by William Henry Fox Talbot and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pencil of Nature" by William Henry Fox Talbot. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
