This sumptuously illustarted volume, hailed as an ndispensible work on the fascinatingly broad and expressive photographic medium has been revised and expanded to cover images by contemporary photographers working in the twenty-first century.<< AUTHOR: Naomi Rosenblum, an independent curator and sscholar who has written many articles and lectured extensively on a range of subjects in photography first published A World History of Photography in 1984. The book has since been translated into French, Japanese, Polish, and Chinese, and it has been updated and expanded through many editions. Rosenblum lives in Long Island City, New York.<< 831 illustrations