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More About The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
The editor of this book is the late Robin Lenman who was a lecturer in
the history department at the University of Warwick. The book has a long
list of additional contributors who are lecturers, museum curators, professors,
academics, photographers, journalists, and other art experts.
The book’s frontmatter includes an introduction, a “Thematic” table of
contents, a list of contributors with a brief description of their backgrounds,
and a page of “reader notes” giving the reader information about formatting
and layout within entries. The “Thematic” table of contents sorts the titles
of the book’s entries under different theme and geographic umbrellas, but
page numbers for these entries are not present.
Within the book, the entries are arranged alphabetically, by their headwords;
the editor notes in the “reader notes” page that the word ‘photograph’
was removed from the headings for entries in which it might otherwise appear
for sorting purposes, much as most sorting schema ignore the word ‘the’
in headings. Each entry contains a heading, a brief text on the topic,
the initials of the contributor who penned the entry and a cited source.
Some entries are only a paragraph long, while others take up an entire
page. Some entries are paired with relevant images that are labeled with
the work title, the work’s creator, and, where possible the date and process.
The book’s backmatter includes a chronology of the history of photography,
a bibliography, a list of additional web resources, an index of people
and companies mentioned in the book and acknowledgements for the sources
of the images presented.