Titre : | The Origins of Photography | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Helmut Gernsheim, Auteur | Editeur : | Londres : Thames & Hudson | Année de publication : | 1982 | Importance : | 1 vol. (280 p.) | Présentation : | Ill. en noir et blanc / Ill. en couleurs / 191 ill. | Format : | 25,6 x 28,8 cm | Accompagnement : | ISBN : 0-500-54080-2 | Note générale : | Beau-livre ; Photographie. Cet ouvrage présente une analyse historique approfondie des débuts de la photographie. Il aborde ainsi les prémices de la photographie, le développement du daguerréotype et du calotype ainsi que leur diffusion à travers l'Europe et les Etats-Unis, les différentes applications artistiques de ces nouveaux procédés photographiques, et l'apogée artistique de la photographie à l'époque victorienne. Cette analyse est appuyée par une galerie de photographies de l'époque. | Langues : | Anglais | Mots-clés : | Beau-livre Histoire Sciences Photographie Vocabulaire photographique Technique photographique Histoire de la photographie Art de la photographie Photographie victorienne Camera obscura Héliographie Daguerréotype Calotype Thomas Wedgwood Nicéphore Niépce Louis Daguerre Fox Talbot Robert Adamson David Octavius Hill Nadar Ansel Adams Edward Weston Man Ray Gustave Le Gray Charles Sheeler Brassaï André Kertész Weegee Imogen Cunningham Walker Evans Eugène Atget August Sander Henri Cartier-Bresson Edward Steichen Alfred Stieglitz Robert Doisneau | Résumé : | Jaquette : "When The History of Photography, by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, was first published in 1955, it immediately established itself as the standard work on the subject : the Financial Times described it as "The most important single historical work in the field" and the Daily Telegraph said of a subsequent edition that "for the general reader, as much as the expert, this remains a superb book." The first and most fascinating episode of this classic book is now reprinted here in revised and expanded form, with the addition of many new illustrations, covering the historic formative stages of photography from the first, tentative experiments with the camera obscura, and the fixing of fraught spread of the deguerrotype and calotype troughout Europe and America.
The invention of photography has been variously ascribed to Thomas Wedgwood, who conceived the idea; to Nicéphore Niépce, who first succeded, in 1826-27, in making a permanent photograph from nature (a photograph rediscovered in 1952 by the author); to Daguerre, who delighted the world with the novelty of the first practicable process of photography; and to Fox Talbot, who introduced the negative/positive process, the principle still employed in photography today. The achievements of all these great innovators, as well as those of scores of less familiar names, are recounted in this authoritative survey. Fox Talbot's calotype process heralded the printing of photographes on paper and their use for artistic effects: the final chapters of the book describe how these processes spread round the world and how early photography reached its artistic peak in the magnificent achievements of photographers such as Hill and Adamson.
The plates, which have been specially reproduced to bring out the silver and sepia tints of the original prints, are a rich resource for study of the styles and qualities of imagination of the pioneers of early photography, as well as being a fascinating historical record: the first operation under anaesthetic, goldminers in California, the first photographs of the Middle East - all theses pictures date from more than a century ago.
The many new photographs collected for this edition, and the high quality of reproduction, ensure that this will remain a classic history of the early photographers' art for many years to come." | Note de contenu : | Introduction (p.6)
The prehistory of photography (p.7)
Heliography (p.29)
The daguerreotype (p.41)
Negative/positive processes on paper (p.53)
Direct positives on paper (p.63)
Other independent inventors (p.71)
The daguerreotype in France (p.83)
The daguerreotype in America (p.99)
The daguerreotype in Great Britain, 1839-c.1857 (p.121)
The origins of photography in Italy (p.167)
Stereoscopic daguerretypes (p.179)
The calotype and other paper processes in Great Britain, 1841-c.1857 (p.181)
The progress of photography on paper in other countries (p.233)
Notes (p.265)
Biography (p.273)
Bibliography (p.274)
Acknowledgments (p.275)
Index of names (p.276) |
The Origins of Photography [texte imprimé] / Helmut Gernsheim, Auteur . - Londres : Thames & Hudson, 1982 . - 1 vol. (280 p.) : Ill. en noir et blanc / Ill. en couleurs / 191 ill. ; 25,6 x 28,8 cm + ISBN : 0-500-54080-2. Beau-livre ; Photographie. Cet ouvrage présente une analyse historique approfondie des débuts de la photographie. Il aborde ainsi les prémices de la photographie, le développement du daguerréotype et du calotype ainsi que leur diffusion à travers l'Europe et les Etats-Unis, les différentes applications artistiques de ces nouveaux procédés photographiques, et l'apogée artistique de la photographie à l'époque victorienne. Cette analyse est appuyée par une galerie de photographies de l'époque. Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : | Beau-livre Histoire Sciences Photographie Vocabulaire photographique Technique photographique Histoire de la photographie Art de la photographie Photographie victorienne Camera obscura Héliographie Daguerréotype Calotype Thomas Wedgwood Nicéphore Niépce Louis Daguerre Fox Talbot Robert Adamson David Octavius Hill Nadar Ansel Adams Edward Weston Man Ray Gustave Le Gray Charles Sheeler Brassaï André Kertész Weegee Imogen Cunningham Walker Evans Eugène Atget August Sander Henri Cartier-Bresson Edward Steichen Alfred Stieglitz Robert Doisneau | Résumé : | Jaquette : "When The History of Photography, by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, was first published in 1955, it immediately established itself as the standard work on the subject : the Financial Times described it as "The most important single historical work in the field" and the Daily Telegraph said of a subsequent edition that "for the general reader, as much as the expert, this remains a superb book." The first and most fascinating episode of this classic book is now reprinted here in revised and expanded form, with the addition of many new illustrations, covering the historic formative stages of photography from the first, tentative experiments with the camera obscura, and the fixing of fraught spread of the deguerrotype and calotype troughout Europe and America.
The invention of photography has been variously ascribed to Thomas Wedgwood, who conceived the idea; to Nicéphore Niépce, who first succeded, in 1826-27, in making a permanent photograph from nature (a photograph rediscovered in 1952 by the author); to Daguerre, who delighted the world with the novelty of the first practicable process of photography; and to Fox Talbot, who introduced the negative/positive process, the principle still employed in photography today. The achievements of all these great innovators, as well as those of scores of less familiar names, are recounted in this authoritative survey. Fox Talbot's calotype process heralded the printing of photographes on paper and their use for artistic effects: the final chapters of the book describe how these processes spread round the world and how early photography reached its artistic peak in the magnificent achievements of photographers such as Hill and Adamson.
The plates, which have been specially reproduced to bring out the silver and sepia tints of the original prints, are a rich resource for study of the styles and qualities of imagination of the pioneers of early photography, as well as being a fascinating historical record: the first operation under anaesthetic, goldminers in California, the first photographs of the Middle East - all theses pictures date from more than a century ago.
The many new photographs collected for this edition, and the high quality of reproduction, ensure that this will remain a classic history of the early photographers' art for many years to come." | Note de contenu : | Introduction (p.6)
The prehistory of photography (p.7)
Heliography (p.29)
The daguerreotype (p.41)
Negative/positive processes on paper (p.53)
Direct positives on paper (p.63)
Other independent inventors (p.71)
The daguerreotype in France (p.83)
The daguerreotype in America (p.99)
The daguerreotype in Great Britain, 1839-c.1857 (p.121)
The origins of photography in Italy (p.167)
Stereoscopic daguerretypes (p.179)
The calotype and other paper processes in Great Britain, 1841-c.1857 (p.181)
The progress of photography on paper in other countries (p.233)
Notes (p.265)
Biography (p.273)
Bibliography (p.274)
Acknowledgments (p.275)
Index of names (p.276) |
|