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A history of photography in 50 cameras / Michael Pritchard, FRPS.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books, 2015Description: 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781770855908 (bound)
  • 1770855904 (bound)
Other title:
  • History of photography in fifty cameras
  • 50 cameras
Subject(s):
Contents:
The Giroux Daguerreotype -- The Talbot "mousetrap" -- Ottewill's double folding camera -- Powell's stereoscopic camera -- The Sutton panoramic -- The Kodak -- The Stirn concealed vest camera -- The Enjalbert revolver de poche -- The Rouch Eureka -- The Goerz Anschütz -- The Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby -- The Scovill book camera -- The Kodak Brownie -- The Sanderson hand camera -- The Ticka -- The Soho reflex -- The vest pocket Kodak -- The Thornton-Pickard Mark III Hythe camera gun -- The Ermanox -- The Leica I -- The Contax I -- The George Washington Kodak -- The Voigtländer Prominent -- The Coronet Midget -- The Canon Hansa -- The Kine Exakta -- The Minox -- The Compass -- The Kodak Super Six-20 -- The Kodak Matchbox -- The Pacemaker Speed Graphic -- The Hasselblad -- The Polaroid Land Model 95 -- The View-Master personal stereo camera -- The Leica M3 -- The Rolleiflex 3.5f -- The Nikon F -- The Topcon Re Super (UK) / Super D (US) -- The Kodak Instamatic -- The Pentax Spotmatic -- The Olympus OM-1 -- The pocket Instamatic -- The Polaroid SX-70 -- The Canon A1 -- The Sony Mavica -- The Fuji Quicksnap -- The Kodak Nikon DCS100 -- The Apple Quicktake -- The Canon 5d Mark III -- The Nokia Lumia.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 771.309 P961 Available 33111008339125
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is an ideal book for camera collectors as well as anyone researching the history and art of photography.

A History of Photography in 50 Cameras explores the 180-year story of perhaps the most widely used device ever built. It covers cameras in all forms, revealing the origins and development of each model and tracing the stories of the photographers who used and popularized them. Illustrated throughout with studio shots of all fifty cameras and a selection of iconic photographs made using them, it is the perfect companion guide for camera and photography enthusiasts alike.

The cameras include:

The Nikon F, the "hockey puck" that saved photographer Don McCullin's life when it stopped a sniper's bullet during the Vietnam War. Its indestructibility, reliability and interchangeable lenses made it a favored workhorse of photojournalists. The Leica M3-D was also favored by war photographers, including David Duncan Douglas, who used the camera during his coverage of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. In 2012, one of his four customized Leica cameras sold at auction for nearly $2 million. A Speed Graphic was used to take Sam Shere's widely published photograph of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, "the world's most famous news photograph ever taken." With few shots left and no time to get the camera to his eye, he shot his Pulitzer Prize-winning image "literally from the hip. It was over so fast there was nothing else to do." The camera phone has transformed picture-taking technology most profoundly since the invention of cameras. The "selfie" has become a new genre of photography practiced by everyone, and shared globally.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.

The Giroux Daguerreotype -- The Talbot "mousetrap" -- Ottewill's double folding camera -- Powell's stereoscopic camera -- The Sutton panoramic -- The Kodak -- The Stirn concealed vest camera -- The Enjalbert revolver de poche -- The Rouch Eureka -- The Goerz Anschütz -- The Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby -- The Scovill book camera -- The Kodak Brownie -- The Sanderson hand camera -- The Ticka -- The Soho reflex -- The vest pocket Kodak -- The Thornton-Pickard Mark III Hythe camera gun -- The Ermanox -- The Leica I -- The Contax I -- The George Washington Kodak -- The Voigtländer Prominent -- The Coronet Midget -- The Canon Hansa -- The Kine Exakta -- The Minox -- The Compass -- The Kodak Super Six-20 -- The Kodak Matchbox -- The Pacemaker Speed Graphic -- The Hasselblad -- The Polaroid Land Model 95 -- The View-Master personal stereo camera -- The Leica M3 -- The Rolleiflex 3.5f -- The Nikon F -- The Topcon Re Super (UK) / Super D (US) -- The Kodak Instamatic -- The Pentax Spotmatic -- The Olympus OM-1 -- The pocket Instamatic -- The Polaroid SX-70 -- The Canon A1 -- The Sony Mavica -- The Fuji Quicksnap -- The Kodak Nikon DCS100 -- The Apple Quicktake -- The Canon 5d Mark III -- The Nokia Lumia.

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