Title: Camera clues : a handbook for photographic investigation /
Authors: Nickell, Joe.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Legal photography; Photographs Dating.; Photography in historiography
Contents: The history of photography. The development of the photographic process ; Daguerreotype : the first practical process ; Ambrotypes : the early wet-plate process ; Tintypes : later wet-plate photos ; Glass negatives, paper prints ; Dry plates and "snapshots" ; The Kodak and roll film ; Popular photography -- Historical phot mysteries. Identifying and dating old photographs ; Originals, copies, and fakes ; Case studies -- Photography and identification. Photographs for identification purposes ; Identifying people in old photographs -- Investigative photography. Photographing evidence ; Spectral techniques ; Surreptitious photography ; Legal concerns -- Trick photography. Combining images ; Other camera tricks ; Additional darkroom deceptions ; Retouching ; Computer technology ; Detecting trickery -- Phographing the paranormal. Spirit photography ; UFO snapshots ; Pictures of legendary creatures ; Photos of other paranormal subjects -- Paranormal photographs. Miracle pictures ; Photos by spirits ; Psychokinetic photographs -- Appendix : Landmarks in photography.