The Focal Encyclopedia Of Photography

CONTENTS: Advances in photographic technology -- Advancement of digital photography & related technologies -- Technical evolution of photography in the 19th century -- Introduction to photographic equipment, processes & definitions of the 19th century -- Introduction to the biographies of selected innovators of photographic technology -- Selected photographs from the 19th century -- Evolution of the photographic lens in the 19th century -- Photography in the 20th century -- Photography, fine art photography and the visual arts: 1900-2001 -- Photography & society in the 20th century -- Photography & desire : fashion, glamour & photography -- Photography programs in the 20th century museums, galleries & collections -- Photographic higher education in the United States -- Photographic workshops: a changing educational practice -- Magazines : Photographer’s press in the United States & Great Britain during the transition decade of the 1960s -- Histories, theories, and criticisms -- African Americans as photographers & photographic subjects --Biographies of selected photographers from the 20th century -- Photography’s dependence on equipment -- Profiles of selected photographic film & digital companies -- Overviews of selected applications of photography -- Applications of advertising photography -- Catalogue photography -- Commercial photography -- Food photography -- Illustration photography -- Still-life photography -- Architectural photography -- Corporate photography -- Dance & theater photography -- Theatrical photography -- Freelance photography -- Identification photography -- Industrial photography -- Landscape photography -- Narrative, documentary & editorial photography -- Orb photography -- Panoramic photography -- Photojournalism -- Postcard photography -- Portraiture -- School photography -- Snapshot photography -- Sports photography -- Stock photography -- Wedding photography -- Digital, a maturing technology -- Digital archiving -- Imaging systems -- Solid state imaging sensors -- Standards & imaging materials -- Digital camera testing -- Image formation -- Colorimetry -- Color spaces, color encodings & color image encodings -- Color management -- Color management in the future -- Digital camera RAW -- Digital image processing -- Metadata & digital photography -- Spectral imaging -- Creative applications of digital photography, scan-o-gram -- Glossary of digital terminology -- A different set of questions for a new age -- Academic & pedagogical issues: the impact of digital imaging on photographic education -- Ethical Photojournalism: Its authenticity & impact -- Future of publishing -- 100 years from now -- Perception, evidence, truth & seeing -- Photo marketplace & contemporary image makers -- Photographic studio of the 21st century -- Photographic virtual reality -- Potlatch, auction, & the in-between: digital art & digital audiences -- Pressure to stay current -- Science as art -- Aided eye -- Acoustic holography -- Aerial photography -- Anthropological photography -- Archeological photography -- Astrophotography -- Autoradiography -- Ballistics photography -- Biological photography -- Botanical photography -- Cave photography -- Chronophotography -- Darkfield illumination -- Dental photography -- Electron imaging -- Electron microscopy -- Endoscopic photography-- False color photography -- Fluorescence photography -- Forensic photography -- Geological photography -- High-speed cinematography -- High speed still photography -- Hologram -- Holographic interferometry -- Holography -- Hypersensitization -- Imaging manipulation : science fact or fiction -- Infrared photography -- Kirilian photography -- Medical diagnostic imaging -- Medical photography -- Military photography -- Multispectral imaging -- Nature photography -- Night-time & twilight photography -- Nuclear track recording -- Ophthalmic photography -- Photogrammetry -- Photomacrography & close-up photography -- Photomicrography -- Police photography -- Pseudocolor -- Remote sensing -- Schlieren & shadowgraph photography -- Scientific visualization -- Space photography -- Streak & strip photography -- Technical photography -- Time lapse photography -- Underwater photography -- Human visual system -- 20th century photographic materials & process essentials -- Silver halide materials: general emulsion properties -- Black &white films & papers -- Chemistry of developers & development processes -- From exposure to print : essentials of silver halide photography required for long-lasting high quality prints -- Color photography -- Silver dye-bleach photography -- Photographic optics -- Additional lens types -- Some other filter types -- Photometry, radiometry & measurement -- Color theory -- Color measurement -- 20th century photographic lighting -- Camera defined -- History of the 20th century camera -- Enlargers -- Projection.