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The definitive history of photography book,
Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an expressive social construct came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation.
List of contents
1. Advancing Towards Photography: The Rise of the Reproduction 2. The Daguerreotype: Image and Object 3. Calotype Rising: The Arrival of Photography 4. Pictures on Glass: The Wet Plate Process 5. World News—Current Events: Picturing Tragedy 6. A New Medium of Communication 7. The Travelling Camera: Photography and Landscape 8. New Ways of Visualizing Time, Space, and Color 9. Suggesting the Subject: The Evolution of Pictorialism 10. Modernism’s Innovations 11. The New Culture of Light 12. Social Documents 13. Catching Time 14. From Halftones to Bytes 15. The Atomic Age 16. New Frontiers: Expanding Boundaries 17. Changing Realities 18. Thinking About Photography 19. The Politics of Representation 20. Photography Becomes Digital Imaging
About the author
Robert Hirsch is a photographic imagemaker, curator, historian, and writer. Former executive director of CEPA Gallery and now director of Light Research in Buffalo, NY, he has published scores of articles about visual culture and interviewed numerous significant figures in the photographic arts. His other books include Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels; Light and Lens: Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age; Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Concepts, Equipment, Materials, and Processes; and Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography from 1960 to Now. A former associate editor for Digital Camera and Photovision, Hirsch has also written for Afterimage, exposure, History of Photography, The Photo Review, Photo Technique, and World Book Encyclopedia, among others. He has curated over 200 exhibitions and has had many one-person and group shows of his own work. For details visit www.lightresearch.net.
Summary
The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an expressive social construct came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation.
