A History of Photography from its beginnings til the 1920s (R. Leggat)Resource for information about the early years of photography. Includes an essay tracing the stages of development from daguerrotypes through calotypes and the collodion process to the dry plate process. Provides brief biographies for an extensive list of important early photographers such as Louis Daguerre, George Eastman, Eadweard Muybridge, Alfred Stieglitz, and William Henry Fox Talbot. Also defines and describes various processes, movements, and terms.
Offers a bibliography and list of British museums with large photography collections.
