GERNSHEIM, Helmut and Alison. The History of Photography, From the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Hardcover (gold-stamped black cloth), 11 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches, 600 pages, 390 halftone illustrations, dustjacket. The Gernsheim's massive history up until about 1910, published in the year of Alison's death. Long considered authoritative on nineteenth-century photography, it covers the medium's prehistory, invention, and then numerous formats, processes, and movements, ending with pictorialism. Very good condition.

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