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Jussim, Estelle. Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts: Photographic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century by Estelle Jussim.

Jussim, Estelle. Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts: Photographic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century by Estelle Jussim.

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Bowker, 1974.  Presumed first edition. Almost like new in hardcover, cloth, without dust jacket.  364 pages. Thorough analysis, still considered the standard work. Topics covered: Graphic Arts; Impact of Photography on Graphic Arts; Howard Pyle; William Hamilton Gibson; Frederic Remington; Art History; Photographic Technology; Heliotype; Engraving; Photogravure; Photomechanical Processes; Half-tone;  Lithography, et al. 

Estelle Jussim (1928–2004) was an art historian, critic, educator, and prolific author of books and essays on visual communication and photography.  She had teaching positions at Hampshire College and then Simmons College, where she taught history of photography, history of rare books, and graphic arts and communications. In addition to this book, her other major works included Slave to Beauty, the Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day and Landscape as Photograph, co-authored by Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock. She contributed texts to monographs on photographers such as Carl Chiarenza, Barbara Crane, Barbara Kasten, Jerome Liebling, and John Pfahl, and wrote periodical articles for Aperture, Close-Up and other journals. 

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