(H/B) A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history.
Eastman died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world, containing over 400,000 images and negatives-among them the work of such masters as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adams.
Home also to 23,000 cinema films, five million film stills, one of the most important silent film collections, technical equipment and a library with 40,000 books on photography and film, the George Eastman House is a pilgrimage site for researchers, photographers, and collectors from all over the world. This volume curates the most impressive images from the collection in chronological order to offer an incomparable overview of photographic history. (From the publisher)

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Foreword
ANTHONY BANNON
The Collections at George Eastman House MARIANNE FULTON
A Legacy in the Making
THERESE MULLIGAN
The Blind Man's Elephant
DAVID WOOTERS
Acknowledgements
About This Publication
All Things under the Sun
Daguerre and the Daguerreotype Southworth and Hawes
Talbot and the Paper Negative
Hill and Adamson
The Calotype in France
An Even Greater Measure
Italy - Rome
Italy - Pompeii
Italy - Florence
Italy - Venice
The Middle East - Egypt
The Middle East - Palestine and Syria, Baalbek, Palmyra, Jerusalem
The Middle East - Turkey
India
The Far East - Japan
The Far East - China
The Americas
The American West
California and the Far West
Technology and War
Technology
Crimea
The American Civil War
A Matter of Fact
Photography's Public and Private Lives
Artful Ambitions
An Art of Its Own
Our Modern World
The Object Photographed
Photography Sells
Public Record
Candid Witness
The Visual Mind
America Seen
The World Beat
Peers and Predecessors
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Photographers' Credits
Index of Photographers