From shutter speeds and F-stops to darkrooms and digital manipulation software, this comprehensive guide covers everything beginning and professional photographers need to know. Filled with full-color, step-by-step illustrations and instructions.

This volume is a complete revision of the 1996 third edition, shares the ever-changing breadth of photographic topics with a special emphasis on digital imaging and contemporary issues. Produced by an international team of photographic and imaging experts with collaboration from the George Eastman House (the world's oldest photography museum), this fourth edition contains essays and photographic reproductions sharing information where photography and imaging serve a primary role, ranging from the atomic to the cosmic.

A comprehensive guide to all the major photographic techniques, from the use of flashes and filters to processing and printing film.

From the era of daguerreotype to digital imaging, this book provides a comprehensive overview of photography. It includes complete lists of Pulitzer Prize winners, archives and museums, photographic resources and major agencies.

"More than 1,300 alphabetically arranged entries. The biographical articles cover both nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographers and inventors of photographic techniques and products ... accompanied by examples of their finest work ... Also included is a special biographical appendix of 2,000 other significant photographers ... technical entries, illustrated with more than 100 helpful diagrams and charts ... There are 65 pages of four-color photographs and more than 200 duotone photographs"--Dustjacket.