Photography As a Tool
By: by the editors of Time-Life Books.
Contributors: Simone Daro Grossner (Picture editor); Jay Brennan (Text editor)
Series: Life Library of Photography #5
Publisher: Time-Life Books
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Photography -- Scientific applications.
Genres: Handbook
First sentence: The earliest cameras took pictures of familiar objects that the human eye could readily see: faces, landscapes, buildings.
Description: Ever since photography was invented, men have been pressing it into service as a tool, dreaming of new ways to make it do what human eyes cannot: of speeding up time or slowing it down to learn how things actually behave; of making visible the things that are too small or too distant or too faint for the unaided eye to see; of utilizing other light waves that, like ultraviolet, are totally invisible to human beings, but are there just the same to register on the eyes of certain insects and on photographic emulsions.
Notes: Appendix, p. 221; Bibliography, p. 231; Index, p. 233.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The Fast and Slow Revealed
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: Pictures Bigger than Life
pagenum: 47; label: 3
title: The Distant Made Near
pagenum: 89; label: 4
title: Photographing the Invisible
pagenum: 123; label: 5
title: An Aid to Technology and Medicine
pagenum: 157; label: 6
title: The Camera's Unique View
pagenum: 183