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The History of Movie Photography
Story of the race to create a machine which would capture and display the very movement of life. Presents a vivid rendering of the creation and technical development of one of the modern world's most common forms of entertainment.
Colour Photography
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Kodak Cameras
An essential book for the Kodak collector by the former curator of the Kodak museum.ÿ 600 cameras listed alphabetically and by type, most illustrated, with technical specification.ÿ Very comprehensive NEW index which will make it more usable for quick reference.
Cameras
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"They Thought it was a Marvel"
Was 1906 the year of birth of animation pictures? Or 1908? Was France the place of birth, or was it the United States? --
Photography on the Color Line
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s prize-winning exhibit consisted of three albums together containing 363 black-and-white photographs, mostly of middle-class African Americans from Atlanta and other parts of Georgia. Smith provides an extensive analysis of the images, the antiracist message Du Bois conveyed by collecting and displaying them, and their connection to his critical thought. She contends that Du Bois was an early visua...
Documenting the World
Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that defined historical moments and generations. Today such a history feels insubstantial and imprecise, even unscientific. And yet photographic technology was not always a necessary precondition for the accurate documentation of history. The documentary impulse that emerged in the late nineteenth century combined the power of science and industry with a particularly utopian (and often imperialistic) belief in the capacity of photography and film to capture the world visually, order it, and render it useful for future generations. This book is about the material and social life of photographs an...
The Look of the Past
Visual and material sources are central to historical practice and this is a much-needed introduction to using artefacts as evidence.
