Enoch Pratt Free Library Blog: “A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words” Photographers In The Fine Arts Department

Press release from the Enott Pratt Free Library:

April 12, 2021

by Daria Phair, Librarian

Many of us have captured life’s moments in photographs. Who gave us this wonderful invention? French scientist and inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833) produced the earliest surviving photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, in 1827, using a camera obscura and a process he called “heliography.” By 1837, Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) had discovered a technique for reproducing images that were fixed and didn’t fade.  A photography boom ensued. To explore more of the history and people in this artistic field, check out what the Fine Arts Department has on famous photographers and techniques through the ages. Here are a dozen examples.

Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast years, 1923-1937 by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing Book Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity by Berenice Abbott, et al. Book Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning; Her Lifetime in Photography by Elizabeth Partridge Book Robert Capa: The Paris years, 1933-1954 by Bernard Lebrun Book Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man by Andrea G. Stillman Book Galen Rowell: A Retrospective by Sierra Club Books Book Edward Weston: A Legacy by Susan Danly Book Bodine’s Industry: The Dignity of Work by A. Aubrey Bodine Book Photography at MoMA, 1840-1920 Book

This press release was produced by the Enott Pratt Free Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.