Reality Recorded: Early Documentary Photography
Gail. Buckland, "Reality Recorded: Early Documentary Photography"
English | 1974 | ISBN: 0821206133 | 136 pages | PDF | 22.6 MB
English | 1974 | ISBN: 0821206133 | 136 pages | PDF | 22.6 MB
1974 New York Graphic Society Greenwich, Conn.
Bibliography p. 126-127
"Presents documentary photographs taken with calotype and wetplate cameras up to the advent of the dry plate, around 1884: the barricades in Paris in 1848 and 1871; corpses on the fields of Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny of 1858; the opening of London's first underground railway, 1862; a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia, 1865; a British mental hospital patient, 1852; the bound feet of Chinese ladies, 1870. Pictures by the great photographers of England, France, and America are included - Fenton and Talbot, Bayard and Marville, Gardner, Brady and O'Sullivan" …..from inside the book.
Nicely done commentary and accompanying text.
Gail Buckland has written or been a collaborator on fourteen books of photographic history.