Encyclopedia of Photography

CONTENTS: The archaeology of photography (1820-1839) -- The reign of the Daguerreotype (1839-1850) -- The heliographic mission -- Photographic societies -- Good times for portraiture -- The artist collaborates with the sun -- Photography and war : the first encounters -- Travel photographers -- An artistic journey, from Giotto to Pierre-Paul Prud'hon -- Photography: "a huge service to the arts" -- Photographing movement -- The snapshot revolution -- The photographic nude in the nineteenth century -- Scientific photography : the revelation of another reality -- "Authentic cases" of poverty -- The search for color – Pictorialism : the Photographer as art lover -- Photo-secession, Camera work, 291 : photography on par with the fine arts -- The great photographers : Eugène Atget -- World War I -- New visions -- The new American photography -- Paris, capital of the new photography -- The great photographers -- The spread of the photographic image -- Birth of modern reportage -- Photography and sports -- Fashion photography I : a full-fledged artistic medium -- Photography and surrealism : a "strange strangeness" -- The great photographers -- World War II -- Photo agencies -- Modern Japanese photography -- Subjective photography -- The family of man -- Robert Frank and William Klein : the "enfants terribles: of photography -- From colonialization to independence -- The new American color photography -- The polaroid -- Space Discovery : photographing the universe -- Socially aware photographers -- Photographing war -- The portrait -- Official photography : an image for posterity -- Fashion photography II : "Whether they know it or not , all the photographers are pupils of Brodovitch." -- Eroticism and pornography -- Text and photograph : a rich and complex relationship -- Self-portraits and personal journals -- Staged and manufactured images -- Between art and documentation : landscape photography -- The great spectacle of the world -- Travel diaries -- A "good" photograph? -- Pixels and silver dust -- Art photography -- Right of personal portrayal -- Major photography events around the world – Biographies: Abbott Berenice, 1898-1991 -- Ackerman Michael, 1967 -- Adams Ansel, 1902-1984 -- Adams Robert, 1937 -- Aguado Olympe, 1827-1894 -- Albin-Guillot Laure 1879-1962 -- Alvarez Bravo Manuel, 1902-2002 -- Appelt Dieter, 1935 -- Araki Nobuyoshi, 1940 -- Arbus Diane, 1923-1971 -- Arnold Eve, 1913 -- Atget Eugène, 1857-1927 -- Atwood Jane Evelyn, 1947 -- Avedon Richard, 1925 -- Baldus Edouard-Denis, 1813-1889 -- Basilico Gabriele, 1944 -- Bayard Hippolyte, 1801-1887 -- Bayer Herbert, 1900-1985 -- Beato Felice, 1830-1906 -- Beaton Cecil, 1904-1980 -- Becher Bernd et Hilla, 1931 et 1934 -- Bellmer Hans, 1902-1975 -- Bertillon Alphonse, 1853-1914 -- Bing Ilse, 1899-1998 -- Bischof Werner, 1916-1954 -- Bisson Louis-Auguste, 1814-1876; Bisson Auguste-Rosalie,1826-1900 -- Blanquart-Evrard Louis-Désiré, 1802-1872 -- Blossfeldt Karl, 1865-1932 -- Blumenfeld Erwin, 1897-1969 -- Bolanski, Christian, 1944 -- Boubat Edouard, 1923-1999 -- Bourdin Guy, 1928-1991 -- Bourke-White Margaret, 1904-1971 -- Brandt Bill, 1904-1983 -- Brassaï [Gyula Halász] 1899-1984 -- Bullock Wynn, 1902-1975 -- Burgin Victor, 1941 -- Burri René, 1933 -- Bustamante, Jean-Marc, 1952 -- Cahun Claude [Lucy Schwob], 1894-1954 -- Callahan Harry, 1912-1999 -- Calle Sophie, 1953 -- Cameron Julia Margaret, 1815-1879 -- Capa Robert [Endre Erno Friedmann] 1913-1954 -- Caponigro Paul, 1932 -- Carjat Etienne, 1828-1906 -- Caron Gilles, 1939-1970 -- Carroll Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], 1832-1898 -- Cartier-Bresson Henri, 1908 -- Chambi Martin, 1891-1973 -- Clark Larry, 1943 -- Clergue Lucien, 1934 -- Coburn Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966 -- Coplans John, 1920-2003 -- Cunningham Imogen, 1883-1970 -- Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952 -- D'Agata Antoine, 1961 -- Daguerre Louis-Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851 -- Davidson Bruce, 1933 -- Demachy Robert, 1859-1936 -- De Meyer Adolph Gayne, 1868-1946 -- Depardon Raymond, 1942 -- Dieuzaide Jean, 1921 -- Disderi André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819-1889 -- Doisneau Robert, 1912-1994 -- Drtikol Frantisek, 1883-1961 -- Edgerton Harold E., 1903-1990 -- Eggleston William, 1939 -- Eisenstaedt Alfred, 1898-1996 -- Emerson Peter Henry, 1856-1936 -- Erwitt Elliott[Elio Romano Erwitz], 1928 -- Evans Walker, 1903-1975 -- Faucon Bernard, 1951 -- Feininger Andreas, 1906-1999 -- Fenton Roger, 1819-1869 -- Fink Larry, 1941 -- Fleischer Alain, 1944 -- Fontcuberta Joan, 1955 -- Frank Robert, 1924 -- Friedlander Lee, 1934 -- Garcia Rodero Cristina, 1949 -- Ghirri Luigi, 1943-1992 -- Giacomelli Mario, 1925-2000 -- Gibson Ralph, 1939 -- Gilbert and George, 1943 & 1942 -- Gloeden Wilhelm von, 1856-1931 -- Goldin Nan, 1953 -- Griffiths Philip Jones, 1936 -- Gursky Andreas, 1955 -- Haas Ernst, 1921-1986 -- Halsman Philippe, 1906-1979 -- Hausmann Raoul, 1886-1971 -- Heartfield John [John Herzfelde Helmut], 1891-1968 -- Heinecken Robert, 1931 -- Henri Florence, 1893-1982 -- Hill David Octavius, 1802-1870 -- Hine Lewis W., 1874-1940 -- Hockney David, 1937 -- Horst Horst P. [Horst Bohrmann], 1906-1999 -- Horvat Frank, 1928 -- Hosoe Eikoh, 1933 -- Hoyningen-Huene, 1900-1968 -- Iturbide Graciela, 1942 -- Izis [Israel Bidermanas], 1911-1980 -- Karsh Yousuf, 1908 -- Kasebier Gertrude, 1852-1934 -- Keita Seydou, 1923-2001 -- Kertesz André, 1894-1985 -- Klein William, 1928 -- Kollar François, 1904-1979 -- Koudelka Joseph, 1938 -- Krims Les [Leslie Robert], 1943 -- Krull Germaine, 1897-1983 -- Kühn Heinrich, 1866-1944 -- Lange Dorothea, 1895-1965 -- Larrain Sergio, 1931 -- Lartigue Jacques-Henri, 1894-1986 -- Laughlin Clarence John, 1905-1985 -- Le Gray Gustave, 1820-1882 -- Leibovitz, Annie, 1949 -- Le Secq Henri, 1818-1882 -- Levitt Helen, 1913 -- Lissitzky El [Lazar Markovich Lisitskii], 1890-1941 -- List Herbert, 1903-1975 -- Lumière brothers, 1862-1954 & 1864-1948 -- McCullin Donald, 1935 -- Man Ray [Emmanuel Rudnitsky], 1890-1976 -- Mapplethorpe Robert, 1946, 1989 -- Marey Etienne Jules, 1830-1904 -- Marville Charles, 1816-1879 -- Meatyard Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 -- Metzker Ray K., 1931 -- Michals Duane, 1932 -- Miller Lee, 1907-1977 -- Model Lisette, 1906-1983 -- Modotti Tina, 1896-1942 -- Moholy-Nagy Laszlo, 1895-1946 -- Molinier Pierre, 1900-1976 -- Moon Sarah [Marielle Hadengue], 1938 -- Morath Inge, 1923-2002 -- Munkacsi Martin, 1896-1963 -- Muybridge Edward J., 1830-1904 -- Nachtwey James, 1948 -- Nadar, 1820-1910 -- Nègre Charles, 1820-1880 -- Newton Helmut, 1920 -- Niepce Joseph-Nicéphore, 1765-1833 -- Ortiz Echague José, 1886-1980 -- Outerbridge Paul, 1896-1958 -- Parr Martin, 1952 -- Penn Irving, 1917 -- Peress Gilles, 1946 -- Petersen Anders, 1944 -- Pierre et Gilles -- Plossu Bernard, 1946 -- Puyo Constant 1857-1933 -- Raetz Marcus, 1941 -- Rainer Arnulf, 1929 -- Régnault Henri-Victor, 1810-1878 -- Rejlander Oscar Gustav, 1813-1875 -- René-Jacques, 1908 Renger-Patzsch Albert, 1897-1966 -- Riboud Marc, 1923 -- Riis Jacob August, 1849-1914 -- Roche Denis, 1937 -- Rodchenko Alexander, 1891-1956 --Rodger George, 1908-1995 -- Rogi André 1905-1970 -- Ronis Willy, 1910 -- Ruff Thomas, 1958 -- Ruscha Edward, 1937 -- Salgado Sebastiao, 1944 -- Salomon Erich, 1886-1944 -- Sander August, 1876-1964 -- Saudek Jan, 1935 -- Schuh Gotthard, 1897-1969 -- Scianna Ferdinando, 1943 -- Serrano Andres, 1950 -- Seymour David "Chim", 1911-1956 -- Sherman Cindy, 1954 -- Shore Stephen, 1947 -- Sidibé Malick, 1936 -- Sieff Jeanloup, 1933-2000 -- Siskind Aaron, 1903-1991 -- Skoglund Sandy, 1946 -- Smith Willliam Eugene, 1918-1978 -- Sougez Emmanuel, 1889-1972 -- Steichen Edward, 1879-1973 -- Steinert Otto, 1915-1978 -- Stieglitz Alfred, 1864-1946 -- Strand Paul, 1890-1976 -- Strindberg August, 1849-1912 -- Stromholm Christer, 1918-2002 -- Struth Thomas, 1954 -- Sudek Josef, 1896-1976 -- Sugimoto Hiroshi, 1948 -- Tabard Maurice, 1897-1984 -- Tahara Keiichi, 1951 -- Talbot William Henry Fox, 1800-1877 -- Tillmans Wolfgang, 1968 -- Tosani Patrick, 1954 -- Turbeville Deborah, 1937 -- Ubac Raoul, 1910-1985 -- Ueda Shoji, 1913-2000 -- Umbo [Otto Umbehr], 1902-1980 -- Wall Jeff, 1946 -- Warhol Andy [Andrew Warhola], 1928-1987 -- Weegee [Arthur H. Fellig], 1899-1968 -- Wegman William, 1943 -- Weiss Sabine, 1924 -- Weston Edward, 1886-1958 -- White Clarence, 1871-1925 -- White Minor, 1908-1976 -- Winogrand Garry, 1928-1984 -- Witkin Joel-Peter, 1939 -- Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], 1919-1951 -- Zielke Willy, 1902 -- Zuber René, 1902-1979

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