Photography from 1839 to Today

by Johnson, William S.; Rice, Mark; Williams, Carla

• ISBN13: 9783822870730
• ISBN10: 3822870730
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Summary

Located in Rochester, New York, George Eastman House is one of the world's premier institutions for the study, exhibition, and preservation of photography. Opened in 1949 in the home of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company, Eastman House was the first museum in the United States dedicated to photography and motion pictures. This publication offers an insider's view into the depth and scope of the photography collection, tracing photography's rich history from its distant origins to modern digital imaging. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(2)
Anthony Bannon
The Collections at George Eastman House	8	(3)
Marianne Fulton
A Legacy in the Making	11	(10)
Therese Mulligan
The Blind Man's Elephant	21	(10)
David Wooters
Acknowlegements	31	(2)
About This Publication	33	(3)
All Things under the Sun	36	(104)
Daguerre and the Daguerreotype	40	(38)
Southworth and Hawes	78	(12)
Talbot and the Paper Negative	90	(10)
Hill and Adamson	100	(14)
The Calotype in France	114	(26)
An Even Greater Measure	140	(86)
Italy -- Rome	140	(6)
Italy -- Pompeii	146	(2)
Italy -- Florence	148	(2)
Italy -- Venice	150	(7)
The Middle East -- Egypt	157	(11)
The Middle East -- Palestine and Syria, Baalbek, Palmyra, Jerusalem	168	(7)
The Middle East -- Turkey	175	(3)
India	178	(8)
The Far East -- Japan	186	(5)
The Far East -- China	191	(1)
The Americas	192	(5)
The American West	197	(18)
California and the Far West	215	(11)
Technology and War	226	(46)
Technology	226	(24)
Crimea	250	(8)
The American Civil War	258	(14)
A Matter of Fact	272	(34)
Photography's Public and Private Lives	306	(42)
Artful Ambitions	348	(42)
An Art of Its Own	390	(44)
Our Modern World	434	(40)
The Object Photographed	474	(68)
Photography Sells	542	(32)
Public Record	574	(52)
Candid Witness	626	(12)
The Visual Mind	638	(16)
America Seen	654	(16)
The World Beat	670	(14)
Peers and Predecessors	684	(48)
Glossary	732	(15)
Selected Bibligraphy	747	(12)
Photographers' Credits	759	(3)
Index of Photographers	762