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Ian Jeffrey - Revisions, an alternative history of photography |
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Written by Patrick Jan Van Hove
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Thursday, 17 November 2005 |
 
Ian Jeffrey - Revisions, an alternative history of photography
With a title like that I was half expecting to read about new revelations on the history of photography,
about how in the 12th century in China or Brazil or New Zealand, some guy invented photography. But the book starts with the
usual suspects :
Daguerre and Talbot. It does cover the subject in an interesting way, and does talk about areas of popular photography
that are not discussed in the usual history books, like stereo-photography or astro- and micro-photography
and that what makes it an alternative.
This book has been written as the catalogue of an exhibition shown at the National Museum of Photography and
Television in Bradford, UK, in 1999. It thus reads like a walk through a museum. Small pieces of text explaining
or accompanied by images. An very interesting book for anyone interested in the history of photography.
Buy it From: Amazon.com
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Last Updated ( Friday, 18 November 2005 )
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