History of Photography. Pioneers of Photography. An Album of Pictures and Words Compiled by Aaron Scharf. Untitled (Friends of Photography) crossing over from objective historical

crossing over from objective historical reporting into philosophical art criticism

detached aesthetic formalism to carve out an independent

" — James Alinder

beautifully illustrated book

History of Photography. Pioneers of Photography. An Album of Pictures and Words Compiled by Aaron Scharf. Untitled (Friends of Photography) crossing over from objective historicalNY: Abrams, 1976. Excerpts from William Henry Fox Talbot, Pencil of Nature; correspondence of Daguerre, Niepce, Hippolyte Bayard, David Octavius Hill (of Hill and Adamson); Julia Margaret Cameron's autobiographical "Annals of My Glass House"; articles from the British Journal of Photography, 1860s by Samuel Bourne concerning his trips to the Himalayas; Nadar's "When I Was a Photographer" translated into English; articles by Oliver Wendell Holmes on