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Author:  Robert Hirsch 

The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation. Covering major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic practice, author Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of photography, drawing on examples from across the world. This fundamental starting place shows the diversity of makers, inventors, issues, and applications, exploring the artistic, critical, and social aspects of the creative thinking process. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to include the latest advances in technology and digital photography, as well as information on contemporary photographers such as Granville Carroll, Meryl McMaster, Cindy Sherman, Penelope Umbrico, and Yang Yongliang. New topics include the rise of mobile photography and surveillance cameras, drone photography, image manipulation, protest and social justice photography, plus the roles of artificial intelligence and social media in photography. Highly illustrated with over 250 full-color images and contributions from hundreds of artists around the world, Seizing the Light serves as a gateway to the history of photography. Written in an accessible style, it is perfect for those newly engaging with the practice of photography and for experienced photographers wanting to contextualize their own work.

Seizing the Light A Social Aesthetic History of Photography 1st Table of contents:

Chapter One Advancing Towards Photography: The Rise of the Reproduction
A Desire For Visual Representation
Perspective
Thinking of Photography
Camera Vision
The Demand for Picturemaking Systems
Proto-Photographers: Chemical Action of Light
Modernity: New Visual Realities
Optical Devices
Images Through Light: A Struggle For Permanence
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: First Photographer
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: First Direct Positive Process
William Henry Fox Talbot: The Negative/Positive Process
Sir John Herschel: Fixing the Image and Photographic Language
Anna Atkins: Birth of the Photography-Based Book
other Distinct Originators: Photography Is in the Air
Notes
Chapter Two The Daguerreotype: Image and Object
When Daguerreotypes Reigned
What is a Daguerreotype?
The Daguerreotype Comes to America
The Early Practitioners
Early Daguerrean Portrait Making
Technical Improvements
U.S. Portrait Studios As Picture Factories
The Art of the Daguerrean Portrait
African American Operators
Post-Mortem Portraits
The Daguerreotype and the Landscape
The Daguerreotype and Science
Pseudoscience and Slavery
Notes
Chapter Three Calotype Rising: The Arrival of Photography
The Calotype
The Calotype across the Atlantic
William Newton and the Question of Focus
Calotypists in France
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: Calotype Production
Calotype and Architecture: Missions Héliographiques
The Calotype’s Demise And Photography’s Future
Notes
Chapter Four Pictures on Glass: The Wet Plate Process
The Albumen Process
The New Transparent Look
The Ambrotype
The Ferrotype: Pictures On Tin
The Carte De Visite
The Cabinet Photograph: A Bigger Picture
The Studio Tradition
Montage, Retouching, and Changing Scales
The Stereoscope
Stereo Cards as a home encyclopedia
Notes
Chapter Five World News—Current Events: Picturing Tragedy
Photographic Transparency: Seeing As A Way Of Knowing
Happening Now!
Early War Coverage
The American Civil War
How Photographs Were Circulated
Notes
Chapter Six A New Medium of Communication
Photography: Art or Industry?
Photography And Painting: Towards A New Language
Photography Clubs: Spreading the Medium
Expanding the Photographic Syntax
Spiritualism
Positivism
Notes
Chapter Seven The Travelling Camera: Photography and Landscape
The Demand for The Wonderful
Documenting Countries and Their Heritage
Depicting Industrialization
Urban Life
The Other
The American West: The Narrative and The Sublime
Notes
Chapter Eight New Ways of Visualizing Time, Space, and Color
The Inadequacy Of Human Vision
Locomotion
Transforming Aesthetics: Technical Breakthroughs
The Handheld Camera: The Kodak
The Snapshot Attitude
Time And Motion As An Extended Continuum
Moving Pictures
Color and Photography
The Additive Theory
First Projected Color Photographic Image
Additive Screen Processes
Joly Color
Autochrome
Interference Method
The Subtractive Method
Subtractive Film and Chromogenic Development
Chromogenic Negative Film and Development
Subtractive Process: Kodachrome
Notes
Chapter Nine Suggesting the Subject: The Evolution of Pictorialism
Roots of Pictorialism: Symbolism
Pictorialism and Naturalism
The Development of Pictorial Effect and Photography Clubs
The Secession Movement and the Rise of Photography Clubs
Working Pictorially: A Variety of Approaches
American Perspectives
The Photo-Secession
The Decadent Movement and Tonalism
Women Pictorialists
The Pictorial Epoch: Stieglitz’s Group
The Decline of Pictorialism
Chapter Ten Modernism’s Innovations
Industrial Beauty
Cubism
High And Low Art: The Centrality Of The Postcard
Futurism
Time, Movement, And the Machine
Toward a Modern Practice: Distilling Form
Dada
Exploring Space And Time: The Return Of The Photogram
Surrealism
Collage And Photomontage
Suprematism
The Bauhaus: Art, Technology, And A New Faith
Precisionism
Paul Strand and Straight Photography: Purity of Use
Notes
Chapter Eleven The New Culture of Light
Teaching Modernism: The American Impulse
Alfred Stieglitz’s “Equivalents”
Steichen Goes Commercial
Form as Essence
Modernistic Photography
Film Und Foto And New Objectivity
Experimentally Modern
New Vision
Pathways Of Light: Time, Space, And Form
Surrealistic Themes
Notes
Chapter Twelve Social Documents
An American Impulse: Social Uplift
Ethnological Approaches
Emerging Ethnic Consciousness
The Physiognomic Approach
The Great Depression: The Economics of Photography
The Fap Project: Changing New York
Lost Worlds
The Photo Booth: Self-Portraits For All
Mass-Observation
The Film And Photo League
Notes
Chapter Thirteen Catching Time
Anticipating The Moment
The New York School Of Photography
Images and Words
Notes
Chapter Fourteen From Halftones to Bytes
Pictures and Printer’s Ink
The Photo-Magazine
The Separation of Art and Commerce: Advertising and Fashion
Fashion and Fame
Newspapers
War Reportage
The New Subjective Journalism
Bytes of News
Notes
Chapter Fifteen The Atomic Age
New Light/Fresh Methods
The Surrealist Metaphor
Photographic Education as Self-Expression
Family of Man
Photography and Alienation
Making A Big Leap: An Abstract Paradigm Shift
Instant Photography
Pop Goes the Atom
The Subjective Documentary
The Terrorof Riches
Notes
Chapter Sixteen New Frontiers: Expanding Boundaries
The Rise of Theory: Structuralism and Reading a Photograph
The Found Image: The Beginnings of Postmodernism
The Rise of Pop Art
Challenging the Code
The Social Landscape
New Journalism
Multiple Points of View
The Rise of the Artists’ Book
The Rapid Growth of Photographic Education
Notes
Chapter Seventeen Changing Realities
Alternative Visions
Rochester: A New Culture Of Visual Options
New Approaches
Turning the Straight Photograph on Itself
Personal Accounts, Invention, and Interaction
The Snapshot
Post-Structuralism/ New Topographics
The Rephotographic Survey Project: Time Changes
Emergence of Color
Artists’ Books
Reconfiguring Information
After the Bomb: Japanese Photobooks
Expanding Markets
Critical Writing
Notes
Chapter Eighteen Thinking About Photography
Conceptual Art: the Act Of Choosing
Performance Art
A Return To Typologies
Postmodernism
The Pictures Generation and Beyond
Deconstructing Myths: Playing with Archetypes
Fabricating Alternative Realities
Altering Time and Space
Notes
Chapter Nineteen The Politics of Representation
Investigating the Body
Gender Matters
Multiculturalism: Exploring Identity And History
Landscape as a Cultural Space
Notes
Chapter Twenty Photography Becomes Digital Imaging
Photography As Pixels: From Silver Halide to Silicon
Photography’s Social Contract With Truth
Memory is Fragile
Mirror Without a Memory
Internet Immediacy: Social Media, Time-Based Art, and Smartphones
Scanner As a Camera
Death of the Photographer?
The Photographer’s Evolving Role: 3D Modeling and AI Image Generators
Lost and Found
The Digital Revolution Will Be Televised

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