The Abrams Encyclopedia of Photography

CONTENTS: The archaeology of photography (1820-1839) -- The reign of the Daguerreotype (1839-1850) -- The heliographic mission -- Photographic societies -- Good times for portraiture -- The artist collaborates with the sun -- Photography and war : the first encounters -- Travel photographers -- An artistic journey, from Giotto to Pierre-Paul Prud'hon -- Photography: "a huge service to the arts" -- Photographing movement -- The snapshot revolution -- The photographic nude in the nineteenth century -- Scientific photography : the revelation of another reality -- "Authentic cases" of poverty -- The search for color – Pictorialism : the Photographer as art lover -- Photo-secession, Camera work, 291 : photography on par with the fine arts -- The great photographers : Eugène Atget -- World War I -- New visions -- The new American photography -- Paris, capital of the new photography -- The great photographers -- The spread of the photographic image -- Birth of modern reportage -- Photography and sports -- Fashion photography I : a full-fledged artistic medium -- Photography and surrealism : a "strange strangeness" -- The great photographers -- World War II -- Photo agencies -- Modern Japanese photography -- Subjective photography -- The family of man -- Robert Frank and William Klein : the "enfants terribles: of photography -- From colonialization to independence -- The new American color photography -- The polaroid -- Space Discovery : photographing the universe -- Socially aware photographers -- Photographing war -- The portrait -- Official photography : an image for posterity -- Fashion photography II : "Whether they know it or not , all the photographers are pupils of Brodovitch." -- Eroticism and pornography -- Text and photograph : a rich and complex relationship -- Self-portraits and personal journals -- Staged and manufactured images -- Between art and documentation : landscape photography -- The great spectacle of the world -- Travel diaries -- A "good" photogr