UID:
kobvindex_INT0000551
Format:
766 pages :
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illustrations ;
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19.5 x 14 cm.
Edition:
Reprint.
ISBN:
9783836540995 (hbk.)
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3836540991 (hbk.)
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9783822847770 (pbk.)
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3822847771 (pbk.)
Series Statement:
Bibliotheca universalis / Taschen
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world, containing over 400,000 images and negatives-among them the work of such masters as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adam. Home also to 23,000 cinema films, five million film stills, one of the most important silent film collections, technical equipment and a library with 40,000 books on photography and film, the George Eastman House is a pilgrimage site for researchers, photographers, and collectors from all over the world. This volume curates the most impressive images from the collection in chronological order to offer an incomparable overview of photographic history."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: originally published: 1999.
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: Foreword / Anthony Bannon -- The collections at George Eastman House / Marianne Fulton -- A legacy in the making / Therese Mulligan -- The blind man's elephant / David Wooters -- Acknowledgements -- About this publication -- All things under the sun. Daguerre and the Daguerreotype ; Southworth and Hawes ; Talbot and the paper negative ; Hill and Adamson ; The calotype in France -- An even greater measure. Italy: Rome ; Italy: Pompeii ; Italy: Florence ; Italy: Venice ; The middle east: Egypt ; The middle east: Palestine and Syria, Baalbek, Palmyra, Jerusalem -- The middle east: Turkey ; India ; The far east: Japan ; The far east: China ; The Americas ; The American west ; California and the far west -- Technology and war. Technology ; Crimea ; The American Civil War -- A matter of fact -- Photography's public and private lives -- Artful ambitions -- An art of its own -- Our modern world -- The object photographed -- Photography sells -- Public record -- Candid witness -- The visual mind -- America seen -- The world beat -- Peers and predecessors.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Collection catalogues
