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This book delivers an in-depth analysis of Hercule Florence, who is virtually unknown despite being among the world's photographic pioneers. Based on the texts of various manuscripts, letters, diaries, notes, and advertisements, this book answers...

In 1850 seven South Carolina slaves were photographed at the request of the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz to provide evidence of the supposed biological inferiority of Africans. Lost for many years, the photographs were rediscovered in the attic of...

From its beginnings in York, Pennsylvania, in 1847, until the death of Wallace L. Goodridge in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1922, the Goodridge Brothers Studio was the most significant and enduring African American photographic establishment in North America...

The golden age of the American 35mm camera coincided with three tumultuous decades in United States History. Born in the Depression years of the 1930s, the American 35mm reached its maturity during World War II. In the span of only three decades, a toy...

In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks-all then virtually unknown-were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986910253Author Cathy L Waite-GorgensenFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint Quill Hawk PublishingPublisher Quill Hawk PublishingWeight(grams) 522g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786047768677Author Ross DeversonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint GioiPublisher GioiWeight(grams) 216g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927691083Author Dr Graham WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Friday501Publisher Friday501Weight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353445935Author William Henry Fox TalbotFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692719947Author Daniel CostonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Fort Canoga PressPublisher Fort Canoga PressWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979846335Author Paul E DonihueFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Solid Ground PublicationsPublisher Solid Ground PublicationsWeight(grams) 168g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692732038Author Christine AdolphFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Photo Friends PublicationsPublisher Photo Friends PublicationsWeight(grams) 354g

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In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space-tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the...

All 82 photographs included in this two-volume set date from the Second World War; none were taken by professional photographers. In the back of each volume the images are exhibited at their actual size, showing front and back. In the front sections, the...

Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. Their alliance began...

The closure of the era of chemical imaging coincided with the turn of the 21st century: now is the perfect time to review what photography has been, consider what it is now, and contemplate what it will become. With contributions from 20 collectors and...

Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography: the Smeaton brothers. Out of...

The photographs in this startling collection were taken by German soldiers and civilians during the Third Reich; a few were taken by professionals embedded with the troops. But for the most part, they are the work of amateurs taking snapshots for family...

In To Be Nsala’s Daughter, Chérie N. Rivers shows how colonial systems of normalized violence condition the way we see and, through collaboration with contemporary Congolese artists, imagines ways we might learn to see differently. Rivers focuses on a...

In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space-tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587545Author John HannavyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1415g

Emphasizing the medium's reception among several Chinese constituencies, this book explores photography's impact within new discourses on science, as well as its effects in social life, visual modernity and the media during China's transition from...

Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies is an extensive compendium of texts and images, combining scholarly, creative and critical writing on photography with new work in photography. The contributions to the compendium range from academic essays on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894974189Author Bob ScullionFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

This is a first-rate history of photography. As with his previous publication Twentieth Century (2019), author and curator David Acton uses the extraordinary and wide-ranging collection held by the Snite Museum to bring to life 100 photographs which...

Scholarship on photography's earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negative. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to produce...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981734255Author Maxine PayneFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Dust-to-DigitalPublisher Dust-to-Digital

Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in...

In To Be Nsala’s Daughter, Chérie N. Rivers shows how colonial systems of normalized violence condition the way we see and, through collaboration with contemporary Congolese artists, imagines ways we might learn to see differently. Rivers focuses on a...