The Abrams Encyclopedia of Photography
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: November 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780810956094
Subjects: Photography & Photographs; Reference works; Photography; Photo Techniques; Reference; Photography / Reference; Encyclopedias
Description: A comprehensive reference traces the history of photography from the invention of the daguerreotype in 1829 to the breakthroughs in digital photography today, covering such key themes as portraits, still lifes, photojournalism, and NASA images while exploring the ways that the use of pictures has influenced public perspectives.
Notes: CONTENTS:

The archaeology of photography (1820-1839) -- The reign of the Daguerreotype (1839-1850) -- The heliographic mission -- Photographic societies -- Good times for portraiture -- The artist collaborates with the sun -- Photography and war : the first encounters -- Travel photographers -- An artistic journey, from Giotto to Pierre-Paul Prud'hon -- Photography: "a huge service to the arts" -- Photographing movement -- The snapshot revolution -- The photographic nude in the nineteenth century -- Scientific photography : the revelation of another reality -- "Authentic cases" of poverty -- The search for color – Pictorialism : the Photographer as art lover -- Photo-secession, Camera work, 291 : photography on par with the fine arts -- The great photographers : Eugène Atget -- World War I -- New visions -- The new American photography -- Paris, capital of the new photography -- The great photographers -- The spread of the photographic image -- Birth of modern reportage -- Photography and sports -- Fashion photography I : a full-fledged artistic medium -- Photography and surrealism : a "strange strangeness" -- The great photographers -- World War II -- Photo agencies -- Modern Japanese photography -- Subjective photography -- The family of man -- Robert Frank and William Klein : the "enfants terribles: of photography -- From colonialization to independence -- The new American color photography -- The polaroid -- Space Discovery : photographing the universe -- Socially aware photographers -- Photographing war -- The portrait -- Official photography : an image for posterity -- Fashion photography II : "Whether they know it or not , all the photographers are pupils of Brodovitch." -- Eroticism and pornography -- Text and photograph : a rich and complex relationship -- Self-portraits and personal journals -- Staged and manufactured images -- Between art and documentation : landscape photography -- The great spectacle of the world -- Travel diaries -- A "good" photograph? -- Pixels and silver dust -- Art photography -- Right of personal portrayal -- Major photography events around the world –

Biographies: Abbott Berenice, 1898-1991 -- Ackerman Michael, 1967 -- Adams Ansel, 1902-1984 -- Adams Robert, 1937 -- Aguado Olympe, 1827-1894 -- Albin-Guillot Laure 1879-1962 -- Alvarez Bravo Manuel, 1902-2002 -- Appelt Dieter, 1935 -- Araki Nobuyoshi, 1940 -- Arbus Diane, 1923-1971 -- Arnold Eve, 1913 -- Atget Eugène, 1857-1927 -- Atwood Jane Evelyn, 1947 -- Avedon Richard, 1925 -- Baldus Edouard-Denis, 1813-1889 -- Basilico Gabriele, 1944 -- Bayard Hippolyte, 1801-1887 -- Bayer Herbert, 1900-1985 -- Beato Felice, 1830-1906 -- Beaton Cecil, 1904-1980 -- Becher Bernd et Hilla, 1931 et 1934 -- Bellmer Hans, 1902-1975 -- Bertillon Alphonse, 1853-1914 -- Bing Ilse, 1899-1998 -- Bischof Werner, 1916-1954 -- Bisson Louis-Auguste, 1814-1876; Bisson Auguste-Rosalie,1826-1900 -- Blanquart-Evrard Louis-Désiré, 1802-1872 -- Blossfeldt Karl, 1865-1932 -- Blumenfeld Erwin, 1897-1969 -- Bolanski, Christian, 1944 -- Boubat Edouard, 1923-1999 -- Bourdin Guy, 1928-1991 -- Bourke-White Margaret, 1904-1971 -- Brandt Bill, 1904-1983 -- Brassaï [Gyula Halász] 1899-1984 -- Bullock Wynn, 1902-1975 -- Burgin Victor, 1941 -- Burri René, 1933 -- Bustamante, Jean-Marc, 1952 -- Cahun Claude [Lucy Schwob], 1894-1954 -- Callahan Harry, 1912-1999 -- Calle Sophie, 1953 -- Cameron Julia Margaret, 1815-1879 -- Capa Robert [Endre Erno Friedmann] 1913-1954 -- Caponigro Paul, 1932 -- Carjat Etienne, 1828-1906 -- Caron Gilles, 1939-1970 -- Carroll Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], 1832-1898 -- Cartier-Bresson Henri, 1908 -- Chambi Martin, 1891-1973 -- Clark Larry, 1943 -- Clergue Lucien, 1934 -- Coburn Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966 -- Coplans John, 1920-2003 -- Cunningham Imogen, 1883-1970 -- Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952 -- D'Agata Antoine, 1961 -- Daguerre Louis-Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851 -- Davidson Bruce, 1933 -- Demachy Robert, 1859-1936 -- De Meyer Adolph Gayne, 1868-1946 -- Depardon Raymond, 1942 -- Dieuzaide Jean, 1921 -- Disderi André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819-1889 -- Doisneau Robert, 1912-1994 -- Drtikol Frantisek, 1883-1961 -- Edgerton Harold E., 1903-1990 -- Eggleston William, 1939 -- Eisenstaedt Alfred, 1898-1996 -- Emerson Peter Henry, 1856-1936 -- Erwitt Elliott[Elio Romano Erwitz], 1928 -- Evans Walker, 1903-1975 -- Faucon Bernard, 1951 -- Feininger Andreas, 1906-1999 -- Fenton Roger, 1819-1869 -- Fink Larry, 1941 -- Fleischer Alain, 1944 -- Fontcuberta Joan, 1955 -- Frank Robert, 1924 -- Friedlander Lee, 1934 -- Garcia Rodero Cristina, 1949 -- Ghirri Luigi, 1943-1992 -- Giacomelli Mario, 1925-2000 -- Gibson Ralph, 1939 -- Gilbert and George, 1943 & 1942 -- Gloeden Wilhelm von, 1856-1931 -- Goldin Nan, 1953 -- Griffiths Philip Jones, 1936 -- Gursky Andreas, 1955 -- Haas Ernst, 1921-1986 -- Halsman Philippe, 1906-1979 -- Hausmann Raoul, 1886-1971 -- Heartfield John [John Herzfelde Helmut], 1891-1968 -- Heinecken Robert, 1931 -- Henri Florence, 1893-1982 -- Hill David Octavius, 1802-1870 -- Hine Lewis W., 1874-1940 -- Hockney David, 1937 -- Horst Horst P. [Horst Bohrmann], 1906-1999 -- Horvat Frank, 1928 -- Hosoe Eikoh, 1933 -- Hoyningen-Huene, 1900-1968 -- Iturbide Graciela, 1942 -- Izis [Israel Bidermanas], 1911-1980 -- Karsh Yousuf, 1908 -- Kasebier Gertrude, 1852-1934 -- Keita Seydou, 1923-2001 -- Kertesz André, 1894-1985 -- Klein William, 1928 -- Kollar François, 1904-1979 -- Koudelka Joseph, 1938 -- Krims Les [Leslie Robert], 1943 -- Krull Germaine, 1897-1983 -- Kühn Heinrich, 1866-1944 -- Lange Dorothea, 1895-1965 -- Larrain Sergio, 1931 -- Lartigue Jacques-Henri, 1894-1986 -- Laughlin Clarence John, 1905-1985 -- Le Gray Gustave, 1820-1882 -- Leibovitz, Annie, 1949 -- Le Secq Henri, 1818-1882 -- Levitt Helen, 1913 -- Lissitzky El [Lazar Markovich Lisitskii], 1890-1941 -- List Herbert, 1903-1975 -- Lumière brothers, 1862-1954 & 1864-1948 -- McCullin Donald, 1935 -- Man Ray [Emmanuel Rudnitsky], 1890-1976 -- Mapplethorpe Robert, 1946, 1989 -- Marey Etienne Jules, 1830-1904 -- Marville Charles, 1816-1879 -- Meatyard Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 -- Metzker Ray K., 1931 -- Michals Duane, 1932 -- Miller Lee, 1907-1977 -- Model Lisette, 1906-1983 -- Modotti Tina, 1896-1942 -- Moholy-Nagy Laszlo, 1895-1946 -- Molinier Pierre, 1900-1976 -- Moon Sarah [Marielle Hadengue], 1938 -- Morath Inge, 1923-2002 -- Munkacsi Martin, 1896-1963 -- Muybridge Edward J., 1830-1904 -- Nachtwey James, 1948 -- Nadar, 1820-1910 -- Nègre Charles, 1820-1880 -- Newton Helmut, 1920 -- Niepce Joseph-Nicéphore, 1765-1833 -- Ortiz Echague José, 1886-1980 -- Outerbridge Paul, 1896-1958 -- Parr Martin, 1952 -- Penn Irving, 1917 -- Peress Gilles, 1946 -- Petersen Anders, 1944 -- Pierre et Gilles -- Plossu Bernard, 1946 -- Puyo Constant 1857-1933 -- Raetz Marcus, 1941 -- Rainer Arnulf, 1929 -- Régnault Henri-Victor, 1810-1878 -- Rejlander Oscar Gustav, 1813-1875 -- René-Jacques, 1908
Renger-Patzsch Albert, 1897-1966 -- Riboud Marc, 1923 -- Riis Jacob August, 1849-1914 -- Roche Denis, 1937 -- Rodchenko Alexander, 1891-1956 --Rodger George, 1908-1995 -- Rogi André 1905-1970 -- Ronis Willy, 1910 -- Ruff Thomas, 1958 -- Ruscha Edward, 1937 -- Salgado Sebastiao, 1944 -- Salomon Erich, 1886-1944 -- Sander August, 1876-1964 -- Saudek Jan, 1935 -- Schuh Gotthard, 1897-1969 -- Scianna Ferdinando, 1943 -- Serrano Andres, 1950 -- Seymour David "Chim", 1911-1956 -- Sherman Cindy, 1954 -- Shore Stephen, 1947 -- Sidibé Malick, 1936 -- Sieff Jeanloup, 1933-2000 -- Siskind Aaron, 1903-1991 -- Skoglund Sandy, 1946 -- Smith Willliam Eugene, 1918-1978 -- Sougez Emmanuel, 1889-1972 -- Steichen Edward, 1879-1973 -- Steinert Otto, 1915-1978 -- Stieglitz Alfred, 1864-1946 -- Strand Paul, 1890-1976 -- Strindberg August, 1849-1912 -- Stromholm Christer, 1918-2002 -- Struth Thomas, 1954 -- Sudek Josef, 1896-1976 -- Sugimoto Hiroshi, 1948 -- Tabard Maurice, 1897-1984 -- Tahara Keiichi, 1951 -- Talbot William Henry Fox, 1800-1877 -- Tillmans Wolfgang, 1968 -- Tosani Patrick, 1954 -- Turbeville Deborah, 1937 -- Ubac Raoul, 1910-1985 -- Ueda Shoji, 1913-2000 -- Umbo [Otto Umbehr], 1902-1980 -- Wall Jeff, 1946 -- Warhol Andy [Andrew Warhola], 1928-1987 -- Weegee [Arthur H. Fellig], 1899-1968 -- Wegman William, 1943 -- Weiss Sabine, 1924 -- Weston Edward, 1886-1958 -- White Clarence, 1871-1925 -- White Minor, 1908-1976 -- Winogrand Garry, 1928-1984 -- Witkin Joel-Peter, 1939 -- Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], 1919-1951 -- Zielke Willy, 1902 -- Zuber René, 1902-1979