From the camera lucida to the latest in digital image making and computer manipulation, photographic technology has dramatically changed throughout its nearly 200-year history, as succinctly explained and powerfully illustrated in "A World History of Photography". Thanks to the unique immediacy with which photography captures perspective and history, the popularity and use of the camera spread rapidly around the globe. Today, photography is ubiquitous: from newspapers and fashion magazines to billboards and the film industry, cultures worldwide have embraced this malleable artistic medium for a limitless variety of purposes. Naomi Rosenblum's classic text investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placing photos in their historical context. Included among the more than 800 photographs by men and women are both little-known and celebrated masterpieces, arranged in stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power. Authoritative and unbiased, Rosenblum's chronicle of photography both chronologically and thematically traces the evolution of this still-young art form. Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communication of ideas, Rosenblum devotes special attention to topics such as portraiture, documentation, advertising, and photojournalism, and to the camera as a means of personal artistic expression. The revised fourth edition includes updates on technical advances as well as a new chapter on contemporary photographers. Armed with the expressive vigor of its images, this thorough and accessible volume will appeal to all.

內奧米•羅森布拉姆，博士，現居住於美國紐約長島，她擁有紐約市立大學研究生院藝術史博士學位，在攝影史研究領域做齣瞭傑齣貢獻。羅森布拉姆博士所著的《世界攝影史》已經成為北美各大高校廣泛使用且備受推崇的教材。此外，她還撰寫瞭享譽業界的《女性攝影師史》（History of Women Photographers）一書，以及大量關於劉易斯•W.海因、保羅•斯特蘭德、現代主義等涉及21世紀攝影各個方麵的著作及專論。