Pioneers of photography : an album of pictures and words / written and compiled by Aaron Scharf ; by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Main entry:

Scharf, Aaron, 1922-1993, author.

Title & Author:

Pioneers of photography : an album of pictures and words / written and compiled by Aaron Scharf ; by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, [1976]
©1975

Description:

188, 1 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 189).
Foreword -- Introduction -- The pencil of nature -- The mirror with a memory -- Sun pictures -- Famous men and fair women -- Travelling man -- When I was a photographer -- The indelible record -- Animal locomotion -- Camera work -- Colour notes.
Also issued online.

Summary:

A superbly illustrated, lively, intimate history of one of the great aesthetic adventures of the modern world-the making of the first photographs.--Book jacket flap.

ISBN:

081090408X
9780810904088

Subject:

Photography History.
Photographers.
Photographie Histoire.
Photographes.
photographers.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photography

Form/genre:

Photograph
photographs.
History
Photographs
Photographies.

Added entries:

British Broadcasting Corporation, sponsoring body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 36824
Call No.: ID TR15.S34; ID:88-B7929
Status: Available

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