In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the people of the world. As an idealist and internationalist, Kahn believed that he could the new autochrome process, the first practical colour process to promote peace and understanding. The examples in this book are an oustanding selection from the 72,000 autochromes in the Kahn collection.
Hardback. 336 pages. NEW.
This superb book is about the photographic portrait, from daguerreotype to carte de visite, in Britain. It is a comprehensive history of the cases and other methods of presentation of these early photographs.
Hardback. 144pages. NEW.
This is the first monograph devoted to one of the most reveared names in American railway photography and contains the finest 170 photographs selected from throughout his almost 60 year career. His is perhaps best known for pioneering non traditional pictorial devices and specialised techniques, most famously night time open-flash images.
Hardback. 224 pages. NEW.
This is a chronicle of scientific photography and brings together nearley 200 vintage photographs by prominenent photographers, distinguished scientists and amateur innovators. The facinating assortment of photographs demonstrate experiments with microscopes, telescopes. motion studies, electricity and magnetism, X-rays and spirit photography. Such photographs revealed previously hidden worlds.
Hardback. 216 pages. NEW.
From the Alkazi Collection of Photography. This book celebrates the ruins of Vijayanagara principally through the work of the early photographer Alexander Greenlaw with prints from his remarkable wax paper negatives as early as 1855. The work of subsequent visitors to the site is also explored.
Hardback. 248 pages. NEW.
