The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography will be a single-volume, illustrated, large-format work with double-columned pages, and will contain some 650 main entries, plus an appendix containing shorter entries on a further 650 minor and emerging figures. It will include entries on individuals (photographers, inventors, critics, patrons, and artists from other fields who wrote about photography); on equipment, techniques, processes, and formats; on artistic movements, aesthetic questions, and criticism; on the development of the commerce of photography; and on the kinds of tasks photography was called on to perform (such as portraiture, documentary, and ethnographic studies), as well as survey articles on the development of photography within individual countries and on the continuity of themes across the decades. The Encyclopedia will also be equipped with an index.
John Hannavy is Emeritus Professor of Photography and Photographic History at the University of Bolton, and is based in Standish, UK. He is the author of a number of books, television scripts, and exhibition catalogues on photographic history, and a regular contributor to the photographic press.