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Title: Seizing the Light: A History of Photography by Robert Hirsch ISBN: 0-697-14361-9 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 22 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $43.75 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Good coverage of subject but poorly written
Comment: The scope and range of Hirsch's book excited me--at last a new comprehensive history of American and European photography! Unfortunately the quality of the illustrations was poor, smudgy halftones and no duotones. (Rosenblum's WORLD HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY has much better). The book even reproduces some color photographs in black and white.But it is Hirsch's writing that really disappoints: long awkward sentences that wander in circles, sentence fragments, and some obviously absurd statements. Take Hirsch's comment on a 1852 daguerreotype of the moon (p. 45): "Previously only a few people had seen the surface of the moon." No doubt he meant something else, but I suspect every sighted human being who ever lived has seen the surface of the moon.
Anyone who wishes to learn about the history of photography should read Beaumont Newhall, Naomi Rosenblum, or a host of others before turning to Robert Hirsch.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book with great pictures.
Comment: This is my personal favorite book on the history of photography. There is another one called World History of Photography that is good too. This book, Seizing the Light, is designed very well, and includes many crisp images (and all the landmark photographs in history). The book is divided into the following sections: Advancing toward photography, the daguerrotype, calotype rising, pictures on glass, prevailing events, a new medium, standardizing the practice, new ways of visualizing time and space, evolution of pictorialism, modernism, new culture of light, social documents, nabbing time, photography and the halftone, the atomic age, new frontiers, changing realities, and finally thinking about photography. I like this book because it is organized so well, and it is easy to navigate while studying it.
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Title: A World History of Photography by Naomi Rosenblum ISBN: 0789203294 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images by Terry Barrett ISBN: 0767411862 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 09 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.75 |
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Title: On Photography by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420099 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 25 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present by Vicki Goldberg, Vicki Godberg ISBN: 0826310915 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: History of Photography : From 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall ISBN: 0870703811 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Pap) Pub. Date: 30 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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