Captain Linnaeus Tripe
Title | Captain Linnaeus Tripe PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Taylor |
Publisher | Prestel Pub |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2014-08-20 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9783791353814 |
This volume on Captain Linnaeus Tripe, who photographed extensively in India and Burma in the mid-19th century, offers brilliant pictures that display the unusual combination of a surveyor's eye and an artist's passion. Captain Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902) occupies a special place in the history of 19th-century photography for the outstanding body of work he produced in India and Burma (now Myanmar) in the 1850s. Introduced to photography by those who saw it as a pastime, he recognized that it could be an effective tool for conveying information about unknown cultures. Under the auspices of the East India Company, he took many photographs of Buddhist and Hindu architecture and dramatic landscapes not seen before in the West. His military training gave his work a striking aesthetic and formal rigor and helped him achieve remarkably consistent results, despite the challenges that India's heat and humidity posed to photographic chemistry. This sumptuous volume features photographs from Tripe's two major expeditions: to Burma in 1854 and to southeast India in 1857. Essays explore the evolution of his practice and the importance of the sites he recorded, while maps and a chronology provide an overview of his life and travels.
Impressed by Light
Title | Impressed by Light PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Taylor |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Calotype |
ISBN | 1588392252 |
Photography emerged in 1839 in two forms simultaneously. In France, Louis Daguerre produced photographs on silvered sheets of copper, while in Great Britain, William Henry Fox Talbot put forward a method of capturing an image on ordinary writing paper treated with chemicals. Talbot’s invention, a paper negative from which any number of positive prints could be made, became the progenitor of virtually all photography carried out before the digital age. Talbot named his perfected invention "calotype," a term based on the Greek word for beauty. Calotypes were characterized by a capacity for subtle tonal distinctions, massing of light and shadow, and softness of detail. In the 1840s, amateur photographers in Britain responded with enthusiasm to the challenges posed by the new medium. Their subjects were wide-ranging, including landscapes and nature studies, architecture, and portraits. Glass-negative photography, which appeared in 1851, was based on the same principles as the paper negative but yielded a sharper picture, and quickly gained popularity. Despite the rise of glass negatives in commercial photography, many gentlemen of leisure and learning continued to use paper negatives into the 1850s and 1860s. These amateurs did not seek the widespread distribution and international reputation pursued by their commercial counterparts, nearly all of whom favored glass negatives. As a result, many of these calotype works were produced in a small number of prints for friends and fellow photographers or for a family album. This richly illustrated, landmark publication tells the first full history of the calotype, embedding it in the context of Britain’s changing fortunes, intricate class structure, ever-growing industrialization, and the new spirit under Queen Victoria. Of the 118 early photographs presented here in meticulously printed plates, many have never before been published or exhibited.
Reverie and Reality
Title | Reverie and Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Flynn Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN |
Catalog of an exhibition held at San Francisco from 13 September 2003 to 7 March 2004.
The Photographs of Linnaeus Tripe
Title | The Photographs of Linnaeus Tripe PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Dewan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 782 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Burma |
ISBN | 9781894243261 |
The Waking Dream
Title | The Waking Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Morris Hambourg |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Photography, Artistic |
ISBN | 0870996622 |
"The 253 works in the exhibition, many of them rare or unique and all of exceptional print quality, have been culled from the more than five thousand that comprise the legendary but seldom exhibited Gilman Paper Company Collection, the most important private collection of photographs in the world.
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
Title | Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography PDF eBook |
Author | John Hannavy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1630 |
Release | 2013-12-16 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1135873267 |
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 making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.
Felice Beato
Title | Felice Beato PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Lacoste |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 160606035X |
The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.