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Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive guide to all things photographic, Photography opens with a gallery of more than 30 of the key figures in photography, from 19th-century pioneers to famous photographers working today. The gallery provides fascinating contrasts between such diverse genres as art photography, reportage, portrait, and wildlife photography. The book then tells the story of photography, from its beginnings to the rise of the "selfie" today. The second...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This lavish coffee-table book traces the history of photography from the first black and white images to celebrated examples of 21st-century digital photography. Photography celebrates the most iconic photographs of the past 200 years and includes more than 50 biographies of the most famous photographers, explaining how they pushed the bounds of the medium. It also showcases examples of the extraordinary cameras that photographers experimented with,...
Author
Publisher
Rocky Nook Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since photography was invented almost 200 years ago, women have broken barriers and influenced the art form. Now, this first-ever children's book about women photogaphers tells the stories of 35 of the most talented historical and contemporary shutterbugs."--
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Language
English
Description
This fifth edition of A World History of Photography is substantively revised and updated. The photography of the past several decades is reevaluated from a contemporary perspective, and international developments are covered in greater detail. The main strands of today's complex universe of digital image-making are masterfully summarized and placed in their historical context, and the careers of representative contemporary photographers are studied...
10) Retro photo: an obsession : a personal selection of vintage cameras and the photographs they take
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography is a landmark publication that encompasses the history, art, and science of photography in a single volume. At a time when information is instantly accessible on the Internet but is often unreliable or uncited, this ambitious project both reasserts the veracity, reliability, and accuracy of scholarly research in reference publishing and offers an immersive, usable, beautifully designed reading experience....
Author
Publisher
dpunkt
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Wir leben bekannterma�en in h�ochst visuellen Zeiten. Bilder pr�agen unser Denken, F�uhlen und Sehen – aber unseren technologischen Fortschritt? Aber ja – haetten Sie gedacht, dass die Erfindung der Google-Bildersuche einzig und allein J.Los Kleiderwahl zur Grammyverleihung 2000 zu verdanken ist? Oder dass eine Wette �uber Pferdehufe beim Galopp zur Erfindung der ersten elektrischen Kameraverschl�usse f�uhrte? Dass ein...
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A Chronology of Photography' presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technological innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions. Structured around a central timeline that charts the development of photography from early experiments with optics right up to the present-day explosion of digital media, it features sumptuous reproductions of key photographs,...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-eight of the most important and influential figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus and Andrew Kertesz to Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe and Alfred Stieglitz, are profiled in bold and compelling detail."--flyleaf.
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