The picture history of photography : from the earliest beginnings to the present day.
- Revised and enlarged edition.
- 708 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The beginnings of photography -- The long road to photography -- Niepce: the world's first photographer -- Daguerre and the daguerrotype -- The daguerreotype in Europe -- The daguerreotype in America -- Masters of the nineteenth century -- Negatives and positives -- Fox Talbot -- Hill and Adamson: the great collaboration -- Early wet-plate photography -- Hesler: Chicago pioneer -- The stereoscope: pictures in pairs -- Nadar: "the Titian of photography" -- The ubiquitous carte de visite -- Julia Margaret Cameron: portraits out of focus -- Rejlander, Robinson, and "art" photography -- Brady: cameraman of the Civil War -- Pioneers of the west -- Muybridge and Eakins: photography of motion -- Footlights, skylights, and tintypes -- The "detective" camera and the Kodak -- Masters of the modern era -- Photography comes of age -- Stieglitz: an American legend -- Steichen: painter, photographer, curator -- Lartigue: boy photographer of La Belle Epoque -- Atget and the streets of Paris -- Riis and Hine: social idealists with the camera -- Genthe: celebrities and anonymous throngs -- Edward West: a new vision -- Lensless photography -- Roy Stryker: documentaries for government and industry -- Ansel Adams: interpreter of nature -- Masters of the miniature camera: Salomon and Eisenstaedt -- Margaret Bourke-White: roving recorder -- Color: another dimension -- Exploring the new horizon -- Extending the range of human vision -- Photography for science -- Photography today -- Postwar trends -- Doisneau: humorist with a camera -- David Douglas Duncan: lensman of the Marines -- Brassai's probing vision -- Callahan and Siskind: the magic of the commonplace -- Van der Elsken: storyteller in photographs -- Cartier-Bresson and the human comedy -- Yousuf Karsh: faces of destiny -- Andreas Feininger -- Robert Capa: men in combat -- Eugene Smith -- "Chim" -- David Seymour -- William Garnett: the world from upper air -- Bill Brandt -- Arnold Newman Todd Webb -- Lucien Clergue -- Gordon Parks -- Lennart Olson -- Bruce Davidson.