Dover Publications / Arts / Photography

Snowflakes in Photographs

by W. A. Bentley – Dover Publications (August 09, 2012)

Over 850 illustrations of snow crystals, photographed by Bentley during a 50-year period, for use by artists, designers, and craftspeople in a variety of creative projects.

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Over 2,000 clear photomicrographs printed on black background of snow crystals. Also frost, rime, hail, and more. Brief text on methodology of research. Absolutely inexhaustible source of design. 202 plates....

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Subjects & Themes

Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs

by Stanley Appelbaum & James Camner – Dover Publications (March 12, 2013)

361 portraits, from 1860s to 1950 of over 400 stars. Informative captions. An illustrious collection, long overdue.

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Performing arts

Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs

by John Thomson – Dover Publications (May 06, 2013)

Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer Thomson, accompanied by texts offering sharply drawn vignettes of laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks,...

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Europe

New York Life at the Turn of the Century in Photographs

by Joseph Byron – Dover Publications (April 29, 2013)

Here are 120 wonderful vintage views — street scenes, parks, restaurants, commercial interiors, Easter Parade, Blizzard of '99, Coney Island, a dinner for Mark Twain, etc. Informative text.

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The Male and Female Figure in Motion: 60 Classic Photographic Sequences

by Eadweard Muybridge – Dover Publications (March 15, 2012)

Sixty of the best, most representative sequences from original 5,000 prints. Taken at speeds up to 1/6000th of a second, incredibly precise images show undraped male and female subjects in many activities.

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Artistic activities

Painting

The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs

by Ulrich Keller – Dover Publications (March 12, 2013)

This tale of an unprecedented technological advance unfolds in a compelling narrative of risks, hardships, disasters, and triumph. More than 160 historic photographs depict exotic settings, workers' housing,...

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New York in the Thirties

by Berenice Abbott – Dover Publications (June 04, 2013)

Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements, and many...

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The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein

by Arthur Rothstein – Dover Publications (June 04, 2013)

Outstanding 1930s photos: famous dust storm photo, ragged children, the unemployed, much more. 120 photographs. Captions.

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Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914

by Robert F. Looney – Dover Publications (June 06, 2013)

215 rare vintage views — from first daguerreotype made in America (1839) to eve of World War I — capture the charm of yesteryear: panoramas, street scenes, landmarks, Lincoln's visit, 1876 Centennial Exposition,...

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Old New York in Early Photographs

by Mary Black – Dover Publications (June 26, 2013)

New York City as it was 1853-1901, through 196 wonderful photographs: great blizzard, Lincoln's funeral procession, great buildings, much more.

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The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs: Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920

by Joan W. Gandy & Thomas H. Gandy – Dover Publications (June 05, 2012)

170 rare and valuable photographs of Mississippi River and its vessels: major steamboats, luxurious interiors, passenger portraits, cargoes, mail boats, capsized ships, much more. Informative text.

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Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929

by William Lee Younger – Dover Publications (May 25, 2012)

157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach...

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Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

by Arnold Genthe & John Kuo Wei Tchen – Dover Publications (December 20, 2012)

130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.

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Old Washington, D.C. in Early Photographs, 1846-1932

by Robert Reed – Dover Publications (May 21, 2013)

224 rare photos: Lincoln's inauguration, Ford's Theater in 1865, Frederick Douglass, Women's Suffrage Parade, Georgetown in 1893, more. Stunning views by Brady, Bishop, Peale, others. Pre-Civil War to modern...

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Children's Fashions of the Past in Photographs

by Alison Mager – Dover Publications (December 06, 2012)

Capture a glimpse of yesteryear with these 165 studio photos of American and European children from the 1860s to the 1920s.

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Antiques & colle...

Victorian Fashion in America: 264 Vintage Photographs

by Kristina Harris – Dover Publications (December 19, 2012)

Vintage photographs depict girls playing dress-up in their mothers' clothes, a boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and scores of other representative portraits. Captions.

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Antiques & colle...

Textiles & Costume

Animals in Motion

by Eadweard Muybridge – Dover Publications (August 27, 2012)

Nearly 4,000 photographs in series, stopped action, of horses, cats, lions, deer, kangaroos, etc. Indispensable for animal artists. Classic of 19th-century photography.

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Artistic activities

Painting

How the Other Half Lives

by Jacob Riis – Dover Publications (March 30, 2012)

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.

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