Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography

Cover
Seizing the Light
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Chapter Opener Image Credits
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Advancing Towards Photography: The Rise of the Reproduction
Chapter 2: The Daguerreotype: Image and Object
Chapter 3: Calotype Rising: The Arrival of Photography
Chapter 4: Pictures on Glass: The Wet Plate Process
Chapter 5: World News—Current Events: Picturing Tragedy
Chapter 6: A New Medium of Communication
Chapter 7: The Travelling Camera: Photography and Landscape
Chapter 8: New Ways of Visualizing Time, Space, and Color
Chapter 9: Suggesting the Subject: The Evolution of Pictorialism
Chapter 10: Modernism’s Innovations
Chapter 11: The New Culture of Light
Chapter 12: Social Documents
Chapter 13: Catching Time
Chapter 14: From Halftones to Bytes
Chapter 15: The Atomic Age
Chapter 16: New Frontiers: Expanding Boundaries
Chapter 17: Changing Realities
Chapter 18: Thinking About Photography
Chapter 19: The Politics of Representation
Chapter 20: Photography Becomes Digital Imaging
Select Bibliography
Index