Photographic Books Collection

Object type Digitised Rare Book Record level Collection

Details

Title
Photographic Books Collection
Descriptive titles
  • Photobook Collection
  • Photo Book Collection
  • Photographically Illustrated Rare Book
  • Photographic Book Collection
Description
Just five years after William Henry Fox Talbot patented the first viable positive/negative photographic process in 1839, he published one of the earliest photography books. Artistic ambitions, combined with new photomechanical print processes such as photogravures, collotypes, and woodburytypes, gave rise to a tradition of books and periodicals in which the photographs themselves became the subject matter of the publications in which they were printed. The university library's Photographic Books Collection comprises some of the earliest examples of this hybrid medium, and also contains fine examples of early to mid-20th century seminal texts as well as contemporary works. All of the books listed here can be viewed on the University Library's Catalogue 'SAULCAT'.
Collection
Photobooks and Photographically Illustrated Books Collection
Parent record
Photobooks and Photographically Illustrated Books Collection Parent record level Collection
Hierarchy
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Date
null - 2013
Department
Special Collections - Rare Books
Record level
Collection
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Format
Media
Subjects
Acknowledgement
Image courtesy of University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums.
Conditions
Free of known copyright restrictions. Image supply fees may still apply.
Credit line
Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums

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