The art of photography, which began less than 150 years ago, has taught us to look at the world in a new way. In this exciting survey, Shirley Glubok presents works of outstanding photographers from the 1830's to the present. 

The striking examples begin with daguerreotypes and calotypes, continue through early motion studies of running horses and a highspeed photograph of the splash of a milk drop. to startling news shots of the explosion of the Hindenberg and the first moon walk.

Highlighted are memorable photographs by great camera artists such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Henri Cartier-Bresson. In astonishing variety, here are scenes of natural wonders by Timothy O'Sullivan and Ansel Adams, of city streets by Eugene Atget and Bernice Abbott, nineteenth-century formal portraits (including one of Alice Liddell, for who Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland), photographs from the Depression by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, unconventional views of contemporary personalities by Philippe Halsman and Irving Penn, and abstract compositions by Edward Weston and Man Ray. 

This new volume in the highly acclaimed "Art of . . ." series points up the vitality and beauty of the fine art of photography. 

From the dust jacket