Photography as an artistic medium offers a multitude of rewarding and educational insights. This volume is designed as a handy reference guide for lay viewers, students, and scholars of this medium. Many illustrations from the photograph collections of the Getty Museum and the British Museum are accompanied by a highly readable glossary of technical terms. The book can be used by anyone interested in understanding the techniques, materials, and processes used in photography.

Gordon Baldwin is the former associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the author of Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadère.

This edition is out of print. Revised edition available November 2009.