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Art & Design: Photography: 19th-Century Photography

19th-Century Photography (in alphabetical order by authors name)

The Daguerrian Society and the Daguerrotype
This website offers online photo galleries, historical information, a daguerrian bibliography, an illustrated description of the process, and 19th- and early 20th-century texts.
"From today painting is dead": The Beginnings of Photography by Arts Council of Great Britain
Call Number: 779.07440213t3622f
ISBN: 0900085649
Publication Date: [1972]
Located in Oak Street Library [request online]
History of Photography in China: Western Photographers, 1861-1879 by Bennett, Terry
Call Number: 770.951 B439h2
ISBN: 9780956301215
Publication Date: 2010
Located in Architecture & Art
Technologies of the Image - Art in 19th-Century Iran by David J. Roxburgh (Contribution by, Editor); Mary Mcwilliams; Farshid Emami (Contribution by); Mira Xenia Schwerda (Contribution by)
Call Number: Q. 709.55 T2267
ISBN: 9780300229196
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Located in Architecture & Art
Race, Representation and Photography in 19th-Century Memphis by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
Call Number: 305.896073 J415r
ISBN: 9781409468196
Publication Date: 2016-02-28
Located in Main Stacks
Capturing Japan in Nineteenth Century New England Photopgraphy Collections by Eleanor M. Hight
Call Number: 770.952 H538c
ISBN: 9781409404989
Publication Date: 2011-08-28
Located in Architecture & Art
Icons of Photography by Freddy Langer (Editor)
Call Number: Q. 770.922 F822:E
ISBN: 3791327712
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Located in Uni High Library
International Guide to Nineteenth Century Photographers and Their Works by Gary Edwards
Call Number: Q. 779.09034074 ED96I
ISBN: 0816189382
Publication Date: 1988-02-01
Located in Architecture & Art [non-circulating]
Photography and Realism in the 19th Century: Antwerp, the Oldest Photographs, 1847-1880 by Goethem, Herman Van
Call Number: Q. 779.0949322 G554p
ISBN: 9053252266
Publication Date: 1999
Located in Main Stacks
Art and Photography: Forerunners and Influences: Selected Essays by Heinrich Schwartz
Call Number: TR15 .S395 1985
ISBN: 0879051884
Publication Date: 1985-06-01
Located in the Undergraduate Library
The Rise of Photography, 1850-1880: the age of collodion by Helmut Gernsheim
Call Number: Q. 770.9 G31R1988
ISBN: 0500973490
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Located in Architecture & Art
The History and Practice of the Art of Photography by Henry Hunt Snelling; Beaumont Newhall (Introduction by)
Call Number: 770.1 SN2H1970
ISBN: 9780871000149
Publication Date: 1970-01-01
Located in the Main Stacks and Oak Street [request online]
Le Grand Tour: In the Photographs of Travelers of 19th Century = dans les photographies des voyageurs du XIXe siècle = nelle fotografie dei viaggiatori del XIX secolo by Italo Zannier; Cesare De Seta
Call Number: Q. 914.5 Z16g
ISBN: 8886502001
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Located in Main Stacks
The World of Francis Cooper by Jay Ruby
Call Number: Q. 770.92 R827w
ISBN: 0271017627
Publication Date: 1999-03-30
Located in Main Stacks
Nature Exposed by Jennifer Tucker
Call Number: 509.039 T797n
ISBN: 0801879914
Publication Date: 2006-01-24
Located in Main Stacks
The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-plate, 1839-1885 by Keith F. Davis; Marc F. Wilson (Foreword by); Jane L. Aspinwall (Contribution by)
Call Number: Q. 770.973074 D294o
ISBN: 9780300122862
Publication Date: 2007-10-28
Located in Architecture & Art
Photography : the first eighty years by Lloyd, Valerie
Call Number: 779C713p
Publication Date: 1976
Located in Main Stacks
The Golden Age of British Photography, 1839-1900 by Mark Haworth-Booth (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: Q. 770.941 G565
ISBN: 0893811440
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Located in Architecture & Art
Photography and Its Critics: A Cultural History, 1839-1900 by Mary Warner Marien
Call Number: 770 M338P
ISBN: 0521550432
Publication Date: 1997-05-13
Located in Main stacks
Early photographs and early photographers: a survey in dictionary form by Mathews, Oliver
Call Number: 779 M42E
ISBN: 0859450015
Publication Date: 1973
Located in Main Stacks
New Realities by Mattie Boom (Editor, Text by); Hans Rooseboom (Editor, Text by); Saskia Asser (Text by); Steven Joseph (Text by); Martin Jürgens (Text by)
Call Number: Q. 779.09492074 B644n
ISBN: 9789462083486
Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Located in Architecture & Art
The Pre-Raphaelite Camera: aspects of Victorian photography by Michael Bartram
Call Number: Q. 770.9 B286P
ISBN: 0821215957
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Located in Oak Street [request online]
Delia's Tears by Molly Rogers; David W. Blight
Call Number: 305.800973 R632d
ISBN: 9780300115482
Publication Date: 2010-05-25
Located in Main Stacks
Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography by Peter Galassi
Call Number: Q. 770.9 G131B; ND190 .G36 1981
ISBN: 087070253X
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Architecture & Art and Main Stacks; Undergraduate Library

A catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art (1981) and other locations. The introductory essay explains that its intent is "to show that photography was not a bastard left by science on the doorstep of art, but a legitimate child of the Western pictorial tradition." With an illustrated and annotated checklist of the exhibition, a bibliography, and an artists' index.
The Politics of Focus by Richard G. Smith
Call Number: 778.924 Sm61p
ISBN: 0719042607
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Located in Main Stacks
Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography by Staci Gem Scheiwiller
Call Number: 770.955 Sch259l
ISBN: 9781138201293
Publication Date: 2016-12-07
Located in Architecture & Art
Doctored by Tanya Sheehan
Call Number: 770.2461 Sh356d
ISBN: 9780271037929
Publication Date: 2011-03-28
Located in Main Stacks
Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865 by Thomas R. Kailbourn; Peter E. Palmquist
Call Number: Q.770.92279P185p
ISBN: 0804740577
Publication Date: 2005-10-11
Architecture & Art Reference [non-circulating]

This substantial biographical dictionary of 19th-century photographers of the American West includes an introduction, entries arranged alphabetically by photographer, information on anonymous workers (arranged chronologically), a list of women workers and related appendices, and a bibliography.
Photography: The Origins, 1839-1890 by Walter Guadagnini (Editor); Quentin Bajac (Contribution by); Elizabeth Siegel (Contribution by); Francesco Zanot (Contribution by)
Call Number: Q. 770.09034 P5667
ISBN: 9788857207186
Publication Date: 2011-09-20
Architectue & Art

This two-volume illustrated history of the beginnings of photography includes bibliographical references and an index of names.
The Keepers of Light: a history & working guide to early photographic processes by William Crawford
Call Number: 771 C859K
ISBN: 0871001586
Publication Date: 1979-10-01
Located in Architecture & Art Reference [non-circulating]
First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Birth of Photography by William Henry Fox Talbot; Michael Gray (Text by); Arthur Ollman (Text by); Carol McCusker (Text by)
Call Number: Q.779.0942T142f
ISBN: 1576871533
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Located in Architecture & Art
Utopia/Dystopia by Yasufumi Nakamori; Graham Bader
Call Number: 770.1 N145u
ISBN: 9780300179606
Publication Date: 2012-04-24
Located in Main Stacks