Search Results: A Concise History Of Photography by Helmut And Alison Gernsheim

New York: Grosset and Dunlap. Good paper copy, 314 pp, 258 gravure illustrations, 27 color plates. *This is disbound, working copy only, spine torn on top. . Good. Paper. 1965.

Thames and Hudson, 1965. Paperback. Acceptable. 1965. No Edition Remarks. 314 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Pages 15 to 20 are detached but still present and some other are loose. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning. Book is slightly curled.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1965. Not 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0500180458 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; B&W and color photographs; 314 pages; Red hardcovers with gold lettering on spine. Spine is straight and binding secure. No ownership marks. Interior pages are clean and appear unmarked. Profusely illustrated with B&W and color photographs. Pages are very lightly aging. No dust jacket. .

NY Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. Paperback, VERY GOOD.

Published by Thames and Hudson, London, 1965, 1st edition. Paperback. Illustrated laminated card covers. 8ins x 5.75ins, 314pp, 2pp book adverts. Illustrated throughout. 285 plates, 27 in colour according to the front cover. Half title page price clipped else VG.

London: Thames and Hudson., 1971 From the back cover: A long-cherished dream of humanity was the power to fix the reflections of the mirror and make pictures without the aid of the artist's pencil. Knowledge of the optical principles of the camera obscura, the direct predecessor of the photographic camera, can be traced back to Giovanni Battista della Porta. But in the late eighteenth century, when photochemistry was developed, the true history of photography began. Helmut Gernsheim, the well-known photographer and author of many books on photography, in collaboration with his wife, the late Alison Gernsheim, traces the evolution of photographic technique, the development of equipment, and eventually, the invention of colour photography. The second part of the book is devoted to the artistic achievements of photography, and to its wide field, ranging from social documentation, topography and war reportage, from "art" or pictorial photography, to the most intimate portraits and genre… Read More