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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Corners and cover worn. Cover page has mark. Pages overall are very good. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is a book about photographic technique. It is theoretical at the start becomes historical and then gets down to the practical. Briefly this is how it came to be. The original idea had been to publish a collec- tion of instructions on the use of certain photo- graphic printing processes popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries: processes photogra- phers have attempted to revive in recent years but for which there existed no comprehensive up-to- date reference source. With this practical goal in mind the how-to technical chapters which make up the second part of this book were written first. When I set out to describe the various pro- cesses I also set out to describe the history behind them. As I worked something unexpected hap- pened. I began to realize that I was looking at the history of photography in a manner different from the one I had been taught. I was not looking at it solely from the usual vantage point of the art historian-from above as it were predominantly in visual or formalist terms-but equally from below from the point of view of the evolving technology that had made photography possible. I was thinking about technology more than most art historians usually do. And yet even though I was fairly bubbling over with technical informa- tion I discovered there was something about photographic technology that I was still a long way from figuring out. I knew photography has to de- pend on technology to a far greater degree than do other visual arts (at least traditional ones); but if you asked me what this dependence was all (SP)