Contributions

  • Simone Daro Grossner (Picture editor) - Contributor
  • Jay Brennan (Text editor) - Contributor

Publication

1970 - Time-Life Books, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

59,000 words, Guess

Page Count

236 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • AmazonB000JTJSKK

Classifications

  • DDC778.3
  • LCCTR692 .T54

Description

Ever since photography was invented, men have been pressing it into service as a tool, dreaming of new ways to make it do what human eyes cannot: of speeding up time or slowing it down to learn how things actually behave; of making visible the things that are too small or too distant or too faint for the unaided eye to see; of utilizing other light waves that, like ultraviolet, are totally invisible to human beings, but are there just the same to register on the eyes of certain insects and on photographic emulsions.

First Sentence

The earliest cameras took pictures of familiar objects that the human eye could readily see: faces, landscapes, buildings.

Subjects

Genres

  • Handbook

Series Statement

  • Life Library of Photography #5

Other Editions

  • Photography As a ToolHardcoverTime-Life Books1970-01-01

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