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Photo icons : the story behind the pictures, 1827-1991 / Hans-Michael Koetzle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Köln : Taschen, c2005.Description: 351 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 3822840963
  • 9783822840962
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 779 KOE
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 779 KOE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000163577

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.'

Reprint. Originally issued in 2002 in two volumes.

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