Looking at Photographs
Author: Gordon Baldwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1991)
Binding: Paperback, 88 pages
A thin, elegant and authoritative guide to the many kinds of photographies that first appeared in the 19th century. Most quickly made their way to India. This book nicely summarizes each, making the collector and scholar's life much easier.
Review
"Handsomely printed and designed, beautifully illustrated...a useful reference tool."
--Visual Resources
"This volume would be useful on the shelves of any library, archive, or museum in need of photographic information."
--American Reference Books Annual 1992
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pucka
adj. Hind. pakkā, 'ripe, mature, cooked'; and hence substantial, permanent, with many specific applications, of which examples have been given under the habitually contrasted term cutcha (q.v.).