Title: The picture history of photography, from the earliest beginnings to the present day.
Authors: Pollack, Peter, 1909-1978
Publisher: H. N. Abrams
Year: 1969
Subjects: Photography History.
Contents: 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 --^