Stunningly illustrated, with 48 pages of color plates, 250 black-and-white halftones, and around 40 diagrams, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph offers more than 1600 alphabetical entries that illuminate every aspect of photography. The illustrations are absolutely marvelous, spanning the entire history of photography, from early daguerreotypes, to classic photographs by Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston, to remarkable color images from the surface of Mars. But this is not simply a picture book. An international team of over 140 contributors--including leading art scholars, curators, and independent critics--covers everything from the technology of photography (anamorphic lens, depth of field, reciprocity failure) to photography as a social and artistic practice. The volume offers more than 800 biographies of men and women who played important roles in the development of photography--ranging from photographer Ansel Adams to Walter Zapp (inventor of the Minox...

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