History of Photography / Josef Maria Eder and Edward Epstean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eder, Josef Maria, 1855-1944, author.

Epstean, Edward, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--History.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1945]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Describes the development of the history of photography from an international viewpoint, especially later than Daguerre. Includes chapters on the development of various photochemical processes, the theory of color and light, the invention of cameras and projection apparatus, and prominent figures in the field.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to the Third Edition (1905)

Preface to the Fourth Edition (1931)

Translator's Preface

Contents

I. From Aristotle (Fourth Century before Christ) to the Alchemists

II. Influence of Light on Purple Dyeing by the Ancients

III. Thought and Teaching of the Alchemists

IV. Experiments with Nature-Printing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

V. The History of the Camera Obscura

VI. Stereoscopic (Binocular) Vision

VII. The Invention of Projection Apparatus in the Seventeenth Century

VII. (Rewritten). The Invention of Projection Apparatus

VIII. Studies of Photochemistry by Investigators of the Seventeenth Century up to Bestuscheff's Discovery in 1725 of the Sensitivity of Iron Salts to the Light and the Retrogression of Processes in Darkness

IX. Phenomena of Phosphorescence: Luminous Stone; Discovery of the Light-Sensitivity of Silver Salt; the First Photographic Printing Process by Schulze, 1727

X. The Life of Johann Heinrich Schulze

XI. Photochemical Research in the Eighteenth Century until Beccarius and Bonzius (1757), Together with a Digression on the Knowledge at That Time of the Instability of Colors

XII. From "Giphantie" (1761) to Scheele (1777)

XIII. From Priestley (1777) to Senebier (1782); Together with an Excursion into the Application Made in Those Days of Light-Sensitive Compounds to Magic Arts

XIV. From Scopoli (1783) to Rumford (1798)

XV. From Vauquelin (1798) to Davy (1802)

XVI. The Studies of Sage (1803), Link, and Heinrich on the Nature of Light (1804-8) up to Gay-Lussac and Thenard (1810)

XVII. From the Discovery of Photography in Natural Colors by Seebeck (1810) to the Publication of Daguerre's Process (1839)

XVIII. Special Investigations into the Action of Light on Dyestuffs and Organic Compounds (1824-35)

XIX. Joseph Nicephore Niepce

XX. Relationship between Niepce and Daguerre

XXI. The Life of Daguerre

XXII. The Agreement between Nicephore Niepce and Daguerre (1829)

XXIII. Daguerre Discovers the Light-Sensitivity of Iodized Silvered Plates

XXIV. Joseph Nicephore Niépce's Death in 1833; His Son Isidore Takes His Father's Place in the Contract of 1829 with Daguerre; Daguerre Discovers Development with Mercury Vapors

XXV. Daguerre and Isidore Niépce Attempt Unsuccessfully in 1837 to Sell Daguerreotypy by Subscription; They Offer Their Invention to the Government; Arago's Report to the Academy on January 7, 1839; Agreement Arrived at June 14, 1839

XXVI. Bill for the Purchase of the Invention of Daguerreotypy by the French Government, Which Donates It to the World at Large

XXVII. Daguerre's Activities after the Publication of Daguerreotypy; Report on Daguerreotypy to the Emperor of Austria

XXVIII. Success of Daguerreotypy and Its Commercial Use; the First Daguerreotype Cameras, 1839

XXIX. Commercialization of Daguerreotypy; Description of the Process

XXX. First Use of the Word "Photography", March 14, 1839

XXXI. Scientific Investigation of the Chemico-physical Basis of Photography

XXXII. The First Daguerreotype Portraits; Exposures Reduced to Seconds

XXXIII. The Daguerreotype Process in Practice

XXXIV. Petzval's Portrait Lens and the Orthoscope

XXXV. Daguerreotypy as a Profession, 1840-60

XXXVI. Colored Daguerreotypes

XXXVII. Invention of Photography with Negatives and Positives on Paper and Its Practical Development by Talbot

XXXVIII. Reaction of the Invention of the Daguerreotype, the Talbotype, and the Earlier Photomechanical Processes on the Modern Processes of the Graphic Arts

XXXIX. Bayard's Direct Paper Positives in the Camera and Analogous Methods

XL. Reflectography (Breyerotypy) by Albrecht Breyer, 1839

XLI. Photographic Negatives on Glass (Niepceotypes)

XLII. The Wet Collodion Process

XLIII. Beginning of Photography as an Art by Daguerreotypy, Calotypy, and the Wet Collodion Process

XLIV. Portable Darkrooms; Theory and Practice of the Wet Collodion Process

XLV. Direct Collodion Positives in the Camera

XLVI. Chemical Sensitizers for Silver Halides

XLVII. The Dry Collodion Process and the Invention of Alkaline Development

XLVIII. Invention of Collodion Emulsion

XLIX. Invention of Collodion Layers for the Production of Stripping Films on Spools

L. Stereoscopic Photography

LI. Microphotography

LII. Photomicrography and Projection

LIII. The Solar Camera

LIV. Balloon Photography

LV. Photogrammetry

LVI. Modern Photographic Optics

LVII. Further Development of Photochemistry and Photographic Photometry

LVIII. Photoelectric Properties of Selenium

LIX. Gelatine Silver Bromide

LX. Gradual Increase of Sensitivity of Photographic Processes from 1827 until the Present Time

LXI. Gelatine Silver Bromide Paper for Prints and Enlargements

LXII. The Discovery of Gelatino-Silver Chloride for Transparencies and Positive Paper Images by Chemical Development (1881); Artificial Light Papers

LXIII. Calculation of Exposure, Determination of Photographic Speeds, Sensitometry, and the Laws Governing Density

LXIV. Discovery of Color-Sensitizing of Photographic Emulsions in 1873; Professor H. W. Vogel Discovers Optical Sensitizing

LXV. Discovery of Desensitizing

LXVI. Film Photography and the Rapid Growth of Amateur Photography

XXVII. The Stroboscope and Other Early Devices Showing the Illusion of Movement in Pictures

LXVIII. Eadweard Muybridge's Motion Picture Photography

LXIX. Photographic Analysis of Movement by Janssen and Marey

LXX. Ottomar Anschiitz Records Movement by Instantaneous Photography and Invents the Electrotachyscope (1887)

LXXI. Development of Cinematography

LXXII. Photographing Projectiles in Flight and Air Eddies

LXXIII. Artificial Light in Photography

LXXIV. Printing-out Processes with Silver Salts

LXXV. Mordant-Dye Images on a Silver Base; Uvachromy and Allied Processes

LXXVI. Printing Methods with Iron Salts; Photographic Tracing Method (Blue Prints, etc.); Platinotype

LXXVII. Fotol Printing (1905) and Printing Photographic Tracings [Blueprints, Brown Prints, and Others] on Lithographic Presses (1909)

LXXVIII. Photographic Printing Methods with Light-Sensitive Diazo Compounds: Diazotypy, Primuline Process, Ozalid Paper

LXXIX. Discovery of the Photographic Processes with Chromates by Ponton (1839), and of the Light-Sensitivity of Chromated Gelatine by Talbot (1852)

LXXX. Gum Pigment Method

LXXXI. Pigment Images by Contact; Marion (1873); Manly's Ozotype (1898); Ozobrome Process (1905); Carbro Prints

LXXXII. Oil Printing

LXXXIII. Bromoil Process

LXXXIV. Photoceramics, Enamel Pictures with Collodion, and Dusting-on Methods

LXXXV. Electrotypes; Auer's Nature Prints

LXXXVI. Electrotypes and Galvanic Etchings

LXXXVII. Photogravure with Etched or Galvanically Treated Daguerreotype Plates

LXXXVIII. Invention of Photoelectrotypes for Copperplate Printing and Typographic Reproduction

LXXXIX. Production of Heliogravures by Means of the Asphaltum Method; Beginning of Halftone Steel Etching

XC. Heliographie Steel and Copper Etching with the Chromated Glue Process; Klic's Photogravure; Printing with the Doctor; Rotogravure

XCI. Photolithography; Zincography; Algraphy

XCII. Collotype

XCIII. Photographic Etching on Metal for Typographic Printing, Zincography, Copper Etching, and the Halftone Process

XCIV. Three-Color Photography

XCV. Photochromy; Color Photography with Silver Photochloride; Lippmann's Interference Method and "Photographie Intégrale"; Kodacolor; Bleaching-out Process

XCVI. Photographic Technical Journals, Societies, and Educational Institutions

XCVII.

Supplement to the Chapters on Daguerreotypy and Cinematography

Biography of Josef Maria Eder, by Hinricus Lüppo-Cramer

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780231883702

0231883706

OCLC:

1100426378