Research Catalog

Title

Reality recorded : early documentary photography / Gail Buckland.

Author

Buckland, Gail.

Publication

Greenwich, Conn. : New York Graphic Society, [1974]

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Details

Additional Authors

Dedalus Foundation, donor NN

Description

128 pages : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

"Presents documentary photographs taken with calotype and wetplate cameras up to the advent of the dry plate, around 1884: the barricades in Paris in 1848 and 1871; corpses on the fields of Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny of 1858; the opening of London's first underground railway, 1862; a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia, 1865; a British mental hospital patient, 1852; the bound feet of Chinese ladies, 1870. Pictures by the great photographers of England, France, and America are included - Fenton and Talbot, Bayard and Marville, Gardner, Brady and O'Sullivan ..."--Page 2 of cover

Subject

Documentary photography

Genre/Form

Documentary photography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127) and index.

Source (note)

• of the Dedalus Foundation;

Contents

Foreword -- Documentation in a changing world -- New frontiers -- Recording conflicts -- Emergence of a social awareness -- The Royal Family -- A personal family album.

Call Number

ReCAP 24-4529

ISBN

• 0821206133
• 9780821206133

LCCN

74077570

OCLC

1123329

Author

Buckland, Gail.

Title

Reality recorded : early documentary photography / Gail Buckland.

Imprint

Greenwich, Conn. : New York Graphic Society, [1974]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127) and index.

Local Note

Copy in ReCAP 24-4529 inscribed.

Source

Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN

Added Author

Dedalus Foundation, donor NN

Research Call Number

ReCAP 24-4529