Photo Icons: The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991

Author: Koetzle, Hans-Michael

Brand: TASCHEN

Edition: 25th

Number Of Pages: 352

Details: The stories behind history's most extraordinary photographs (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world and influencing our perceptions of reality. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have, Photo Icons puts the most important landmarks in the history of photography under the microscope. Each chapter of this special edition focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts. The book begins with the very first permanent images (Nic?phore Ni?pce's 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1839 street scene) and takes the reader up through the present day, via the avant-garde photography of the 1920s and works such as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936), Robert Doisneau's Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950), and Martin Parr's 'New European photography.'

EAN: 9783822840962

Release Date: 30-03-2005

Languages: English

Item Note: Book is in very good condition! The dust jacket has light wear. The pages look great and do not have tears, folds, or marks.

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood

Binding: Hardcover