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Title: Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms (Looking at) by Gordon Baldwin ISBN: 0-89236-192-1 Publisher: J. Paul Getty Trust Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good but dated reference
Comment: Baldwin's slim lexicon is an excellent addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of photography. The 122 headwords are well defined and are amply illustrated with color and monochrome images. The vocabulary covers photographic processes from the early 19th century through the early/middle of the 20th. The lack of terms from the 1940s to the present is the one significant flaw in this book.
Unlike some dictionaries, one can easily sit down and read this from cover to cover, flipping around for definitions as necessary (terms elsewhere defined are printed in small-caps). Synonymous entries are cross-referenced to the primary entry.
Coverage of digital photography is minimal, but given the time it was written (1991) this is understandable. Also missing are terms like Kodachrome or Ektachrome (though mentioned in the entry for "Chromogenic Print"). Other terms I had hoped to see included 'Colorama', 'Land', 'Polaroid' (though this is alluded to in the entry for 'Dye Diffusion Print'), Giclees/Iris Prints, Lightjet Prints, Image Transfer, Emulsion Transfer, SX-70 manipulation, and no doubt many others I'm not thinking of right now.
The typography, layout, and printing of the book is outstanding. Heavy glossy pages do the reproduced images justice. Examples are well chosen and represent a range of photographer's and genres.
Rating: 5
Summary: A basic reference even for the pros
Comment: So you think you know it all? This slim, artfully produced, thorough glossary of terms is beautifully illustrated, has clear descriptions of all those mysterious processes on museum labels, including a few even you might not have known, and is as useful in a collector's library as in a contemporary practitioner's.
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Title: Looking at Prints, Drawings, and Watercolours: A Guide to Technical Terms by Paul Goldman ISBN: 0892361484 Publisher: J. Paul Getty Trust Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Looking at European Sculpture: A Guide to Technical Terms (Looking at) by Jane Bassett, Peggy Fogelman, J. Paul Getty Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum ISBN: 089236291X Publisher: J. Paul Getty Trust Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies by Andrea Kirsch, Rustin S. Levenson ISBN: 0300094086 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Prints and Printmaking: An Introduction to the History and Techniques by Antony Griffiths ISBN: 0520207149 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.58 |
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Title: Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Readings in Conservation(Paper)) by Nicholas Stanley Price, Mansfield Kirby Talley, Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro ISBN: 0892363983 Publisher: J. Paul Getty Trust Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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