American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital (The Hallmark Photographic Collection)
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Surveys the medium’s history from the mid-1880s to the present, from one great era of technical and social change to another. follows several significant developments such as dry-plate and roll-film technologies, the introduction of the hand camera, the rise of amateur photography, the widespread reproduction of photographs in the form of newspaper half-tones, and the impact of electronic imaging systems and computers. Photographers featured include: Eadweard Muybridge, Lewis Hine, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Val Telberg, and Bill Jacobson.
