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History of Photography. Shadow and Substance. Essays on the History of Photography in Honor of Heinz K. Henisch.
History of Photography. Shadow and Substance. Essays on the History of Photography in Honor of Heinz K. Henisch.
Edited by Kathleen Collins. Amorphous Institute Press, 1990. ISBN 0-910331-01-4. 1st ed., second printing. Four tributes to Henisch by Estelle Jussim, Hellmut Hager, Felicity Ashbee, and Bernd Lohse, and a remembrance of William Culp Darrah by Jay Ruby. Followed by 51 illustrated essays by noted photo historians such as Robert E. Lassam, “Fox Talbot’s Original Iron Press”; Paolo Costantini, "Photography in Venice, 1839-1846"; Floyd and Marion Rinhart, “Art and the American Daguerreotype”; William Culp Darrah (“Nineteenth Century Women Photographers” with a list of 272 American women photographers before 1900); Ann Wilsher, “Photographic Felonies”; Rolf H. Krauss, “Nadar, Kodak, and the Importance of Being Modest”; David Mattison, “The Claudets of British Columbia”; Hans Christian Adam, “Der Karlsbader Sprudel”; Margaret F. Harker, “Henry Peach Robinson and the Great Hall Studio, Tunbridge Wells”; Michael Hallett, “The Grand View in England: Worcester Cathedral from the Southwest”; Naomi Rosenblum, “Adolphe Braun: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”; Lee Fontanella, "Views in Wales"; Estelle Jussim, “Thinking about Stieglitz, Once More with Feeling”; Gilliam B. Greenhill Hannum, “The Salon Club of America and the Popularization of Pictorial Photography”; Jay Ruby, “... Industrialization of the Picturesque”; Mark Haworth-Booth, “Cecil Beaton: Photographer as Curator”; Kathleen Collins, Simmons College cooking school photo and essay on fugitive slaves in Canada; William B. Becker, "... Edwin Hale Lincoln”; Ulrich Keller, Photojournalism around 1900; John Taylor, “Atrocity Propaganda in the First World War”; Steven Joseph and Tristan Schwilden, News Photography; Peeter Tooming, “About the Birth of the Minox”; Joan M. Schwartz, “Fearful Catastrophe on the Great Western Railway." Other essay topics include James David Forbes and the Early History of Photography; Ivan Szabo: a Hungarian Photographer in Scotland; An Early Picture Narrative by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson; Hans Thoger Winther: Norwegian Pioneer of Photography; Lerebours’ Excursions Daguerriennes; Russell Sedgfield; 69 Istanbul photographers; Major James Waterhouse; Felix, Adrien, and Roger Bonfils; Francis Frith (two essays); Joseph Zacharia: New Zealand Postcard Photographer; Trude Fleischmann: Vienna in the Thirties; Leland Rice’s Photographs of the Berlin Wall Graffiti, and others. Wraps, near fine with crimps in cover, small bump rear top corner. 361 pages.