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A History of Photography. from 1839 to the Present

by Taschen

Photography in historical sequence

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Photography in historical sequence

Drawing on the George Eastman House collection, this volume presents a chronological overview of photography through selected images. The collection’s breadth is reflected in the range of material represented, from the work of photographers including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adams to the museum’s wider holdings in photographic and film history. Its organizing principle makes the images part of a historical survey, while the institutional collection provides the book’s frame of reference.

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  • Readers seeking a visual introduction to the history of photography
  • Photography and film collectors interested in images drawn from a major museum collection
  • Researchers exploring photographic history through a chronological selection

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History of photographyPhotography collectionsPhotography and film

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Book overview

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 Adams.

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.

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