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Objects/histories eBook Series

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  • The Camera as Historian

    Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918

    by Elizabeth Edwards ...
    Series series Objects/histories
    In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of nearly 55 ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Letters on Landscape Photography

    by Henry Peach Robinson ...
    Working at the end of the nineteenth century, photographer Henry Peach Robinson was best known for his zealous, and highly adept, use of combination printing -- creating a single image from multiple negatives. He was also an accomplished writer and this short book from 1888 remains one of his most endearing. In practical instruction and personal anecdote, it extols his unyielding belief that ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Dinosaurs 101 Super Fun Facts And Amazing Pictures (Featuring The World's Top 16 Dinosaurs With Coloring Pages)

    by Janet Evans ...
    A book of dinosaurs from Janet Evans featuring the world's top 16 most loved dinosaurs. This book brings these magnificent creatures back to life again with its amazing pictures, numerous fun facts and featuring various dinosaurs that in land, water and in even in the flying dinosaurs. This book also contains coloring pages of these dinosaurs for your children to enjoy after reading the book. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Apparitionists

    A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

    by Peter Manseau ...
    A story of faith and fraud in post–Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead.In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

    Edited by John Hannavy ...
    The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come.Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards ... Read more

    $825.00 USD

  • Photography and Doubt

    Edited by Sabine T. Kriebel, Andrés Zervigón ...
    Recent decades have seen photography’s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s and the rise of digital technologies soon thereafter, scholars have been asking who and what built this understanding of the medium in the first place.Photography and Doubt reflects on this interest in photography’s referential power by ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set

    Edited by Lynne Warren ...
    The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This Encyclopedia presents ... Read more

    $850.00 USD

  • Searching for Mary Schäffer

    Women Wilderness Photography

    by Colleen Skidmore ...
    Series series Mountain Cairns: A series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
    Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Japan at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer’s own resonant themes—women and wilderness, travel and science—to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Farewell to Valparaiso

    by Paulo Zavala ...
    I want to introduce you to my third book of photographs, Farewell to Valparaiso, that describes my feelings at the time to say good-bye to a loved city where I lived in my adolescence and young adult life. This book is intended to reach an audience of people interested in knowing the suffering of those that were forced to leave their roots behind and not knowing if they will ever come back to them ... Read more

    $3.99 USD