Photography - Softcover

Mark Haworth-Booth, Curator of Photographs at the V&A, has worked closely with many of the great photographers of modern times. His insight and experience illuminates the subject for students and all those interested in the art and techniques of photography. His many published works include Early Photographic Processes (with Brian Coe, 1983), The Golden Age of British Photography, 1839-1900 (1984), Bill Brandt, Behind the Camera (1986), Photography Now (1989) and Camille Silvy's 'River Scene, France', (1992).

Curator of photographs at the esteemed Victoria and Albert Museum for 20 years, Haworth-Booth is uniquely qualified to undertake this work, part history of the medium, part survey of the museum's vast and diverse holdings, and part story of how the institution built the collection. Fewer than 100 images have been selected from 300,000 in the museum, but the choices are all wonders, spanning the entire history of photography and reproduced with a tactile richness and luminescence, often in the full size of the print. It is Haworth-Booth's text, however, that earns this work a place in most libraries. He seamlessly blends the strands of his story and quotes from both practitioners and curators into a very readable narrative that could serve to initiate those newly curious about photography and also inform those well versed in its history. His emphasis on the British innovators may annoy some and may not tell the entire history, but this is an essential piece of the puzzle and belongs in most libraries, both public and academic.?Eric Bryant, "Library Journal"
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