Dust jacket notes: "Photographs of the nineteenth century -- cards that have turned yellow-brown with age or plates under glass encased in plush velvet settings -- are for most people nostalgic fragments of the past, 'tintypes' that are remnants of one's family or of our nation's heritage. But for the rapidly expanding world of history-minded photographers and collectors of photography, art, and Americana, a closer look at early images reveals vast differences between cards, plates, slides, and stereographs. Photography: The Early Years, an unusual presentation of 267 photographs, rare advertisements, numerous anecdotes, and historical tidbits, is an unprecedented systematic resource on early daguerrean and post-daguerrean successes. George Gilbert not only illuminates the roots of each of the major processes, he also relates in fascinating detail the key incidents within the lives of the photographic giants (Brady, Watkins, Plumbe, Neff, the Langenheims, the showman Sarony, and others) whose fame rose with their development of the key processes explained in each chapter...."

Photography: The Early Years : A Historical Guide for Collectors

GILBERT, GEORGE

Harper&Row

Cathedral Cities of England

History

Europe

Franklin Classics

George Gilbert's darkly funny novel, Memoirs and Stories of a Madman, is a story within a story of a former feature writer for newspapers who has fallen from grace, ending up a god-forsaken cab driver in San Francisco. His only escape is writing stories about his alter ego, Wolf, a lecher and drunken ne'er do-well, whose many adventures take him to Mexico. There he meets a bevy of sexually insatiable babes and an American movie producer whose appetites are even more prodigious. Along the way, Wolf has a number of encounters with John Wayne, Cary Grant, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and other immortals. Memoirs and Stories of a Madman is uproariously entertaining, a seductive sex farce told with acid wit, imagination, and high style. It also offers an uncompromising look at a decaying society at the end of the millennium in the United States.

Memoirs and Stories of a Madman

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

iUniverse

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Collecting photographica: The images and equipment of the first hundred years of photography

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Hawthorn Books

The Photographica Collector's Price Guide

Hawthorn Books, Inc.

Career Opportunities In Photography

Explores opportunities for more than sixty jobs in the field of photography, including information on salary ranges, employment prospects, skill requirements, education, advancement opportunities, and associations.

Business & Money

Fehl, Pamela

Job Hunting & Careers

Ferguson Pub

'Career Opportunities in Photography' profiles approximately 60 jobs in photography-related fields. Jobs included are aerial photographer, digital photography consultant, fine arts photographer, industrial photographer, photojournalist, technical writer, and more.

Checkmark Books

Dark Shadow

Individual Artists

Hurtwood Press Ltd

The studio diaries of Alfred Gilbert for 1900 and 1901

Biographies & Memoirs

C. Gilbert

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