Photo icons : the story behind the pictures / Hans-Michael Koetzle.
By: Koetzle, Hans-Michael
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BookSeries: Icons.Publisher: Köln ; London : Taschen, c2002Description: 191 p : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 3822818313.Subject(s): Photojournalism | Photographs | Photography -- Early works to 1850 | Photography -- HistoryDDC classification: 779 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 779 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00131531 |
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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.'
Bibliography: (pages 188-191).
Andre Kertesz -- Robert Capa -- Dorothea Lange -- Horst P. Horst -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Richard Peter sen -- Ernst Haas -- Robert Doisneau -- Dennis Stock -- Robert Lebeck -- Bert Stern -- Rene Burri -- Gerard Malanga -- Barbara Klemm -- Helmut Newton -- Sandy Skoglund -- Robert Mapplethorpe -- Joel-Peter Witkin -- Sebastiao Salgado.