Reality recorded : early documentary photography / Gail Buckland.

Main entry:

Buckland, Gail, author.

Title & Author:

Reality recorded : early documentary photography / Gail Buckland.

Publication:

Greenwich, Connecticut : New York Graphic Society, 1974.

Description:

128 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127) and index.
Documentation in a changing world -- New frontiers -- Recording conflicts -- Emergence of a social awareness -- The Royal Family -- A personal family album.

Summary:

"Presents documentary photographs taken with calotype and wetplate cameras up to the advent of the dry plate, around 1884: the barricades in Paris in 1848 and 1871; corpses on the fields of Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny of 1858; the opening of London's first underground railway, 1862; a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia, 1865; a British mental hospital patient, 1852; the bound feet of Chinese ladies, 1870. Pictures by the great photographers of England, France, and America are included - Fenton and Talbot, Bayard and Marville, Gardner, Brady and O'Sullivan ..."--Page 2 of cover

ISBN:

0821206133
9780821206133

Subject:

Documentary photography.
Photographie documentaire.
documentary photography.

Form/genre:

Stephen Rose Photography Collection (IMA Library)
photobooks.
Documentary photographs.
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

New York Graphic Society, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 49527
Call No.: ID:89-B8525
Status: Available

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