Oxford Companion to the Photograph

The first entry in this useful work from Oxford University Press is Adobe Photoshop and the last is Zone Plate, thus spanning the two great technologies used to produce still photographic images over the past 160 years. During this period, a considerable literature on the subject has amassed ranging from technical monographs to visual art histories. Recent encyclopedias on photography include the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography (Stroebel and Zakia, 1993), The Photography Book (Jeffrey, 1997) and the Abrams Encyclopedia of Photography (Guvignon, 2004). Now Oxford University Press have come up with this volume, a...