Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital - Tapa dura

This is a gorgeous cornerstone volume that celebrates the camera and the art of the photograph. It spans almost 200 years of progress, from the first image ever caught to the instantaneous pictures of today's digital cameras. It includes descriptions of more than 350 cameras plus more than 100 photographs, adverts and drawings. Cameras and what they capture have forever changed our perception of the world and of ourselves. This gorgeous cornerstone volume, created in collaboration with the world-famous George Eastman House, celebrates the camera and the art of the photograph. It spans almost two hundred years of progress, from the first faint image ever caught to the instantaneous pictures snapped by today's state-of-the-art digital equipment. The informative narrative by Todd Gustavson traces the camera's development, the lives of its brilliant but often eccentric inventors and the artists behind the lens. Images and highly descriptive captions for more than 350 cameras from the George Eastman House Collection, plus more than 100 historic photos, ads and drawings, complement the text. It also includes a foreword by the Director of George Eastman House and essays by Steve Sasson and Alexis Gerard.

Todd Gustavson is Curator of Technology at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. He is responsible for the cataloguing, storage and maintenance of one of the world's largest collections of photographic and cinematic equipment, containing more than 20,000 artefacts. He has curated or co-curated ten exhibitions for the museum, including the critically acclaimed travelling exhibition The Brownie at 100.