Helmut Gernsheim

Helmut Erich Robert Kuno Gernsheim (1 March 1913 – 20 July 1995) was a historian of photography, collector, and photographer.

Books

cover of The History of Photography: From the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era by Helmut Gernsheim in collaboration with Alison Gernsheim, 1955; rev. edition, 1969.

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• Beautiful London, New York: Phaidon, 1950.
• with Randolph S. Churchill (eds.), Churchill: His Life in Photographs, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1955.
• with Alison Gernsheim, The History of Photography From the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to 1914, London: Oxford University Press, 1955; revised edition, Thames & Hudson, 1969.
• with Alison Gernsheim, The Recording Eye. A Hundred Years of Great Events as Seen by the Camera, 1839–1939, , New York: Putnam, 1960.
• with Alison Gernsheim, Historic Events 1839–1939, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1960.
• with Alison Gernsheim, A Concise History of Photography, London: Thames & Hudson, 1965.
• Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends 1839–1960, London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1962, IA.
  • Fotografia Artistica: Tendinte Estetice 1839–1960, Bucuresti: Editura Meridiane 1970. (Romanian)
• The Origins of Photography, New York: Thames & Hudson, 1982.

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Gernsheim
• http://www.photohistories.com/Photo-Histories/59/the-history-men-helmut-gernsheim-and-nicephore-niepce/
• http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2010/gernsheim/
• http://petapixel.com/2013/10/02/first-photo/