Classic Essays on Photography

Contents :
Alan Trachtenberg : Introduction
Part One: The Early Nineteenth Century
Joseph Nicéphore Niepce : Memoire on the Heliograph
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre : Daguerreotype
Dominique François Arago : Report
William Henry Fox Talbot : A Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art
Edgar Allan Poe : The Daguerreotype
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake : Photography
Part Two: Victorian Debates
Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Stereoscope and the Stereograph
Charles Baudelaire : The Modern Public and Photography
Henry Peach Robinson : Idealism, Realism, Expressionism
Peter Henry Emerson : Hints on Art
Part Three: Modern Currents
Lewis Hine : Social Photography
Alfred Stieglitz : Pictorial Photography
Marius De Zayas : Photography and Artistic-Photography
Anonymous : Is Photography a New Art?
Paul Strand : Photography and the New God
Franz Roh : Mechanism and Expression
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy : Photography
Man Ray : The Age of Light
Edward Weston : Seeing Photographically
Berenice Abbott : Photography at the Crossroads
Walker Evans : The Reappearance of Photography
Part Four: Some Recent Themes and Issues
Paul Valéry : The Centenary of Photography
Walter Benjamin : A Short History of Photography
William M. Ivins, Jr. : New Reports and New Vision: The Nineteenth Century
André Bazin : The Ontology of the Photographic Image
Siegfried Kracauer : Photography
Roland Barthes : Rhetoric of the Image
Hubert Damisch : Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image
John Berger: Understanding a Photograph
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