Icons of Photography

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¦ Some 160 masterpieces by more than 90 photographers
¦ An invaluable collection of the century's most powerful and moving images
¦ Poignant photographs, born of the moment yet of enduring quality, which capture the history, fate, dreams, and hopes that defined the twentieth century
¦ A fascinating journey to the greatest cities and the most remote landscapes of North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa
¦ Insightful texts by renowned photography critics on the "icons of photography" presented in this exquisite volume, complete with biographies of the photographers
Icons of
PHOTOGRAPHY
THE 20TH CENTURY Edited by Peter Stepan
With contributions by Eri1a Billeter, A. D. Coleman, Ludger Derenthal, Klaus Honnef, Reinhold Misselbeck, Herbert Molderings, Ulrich Pohlmann, Anne W.Tucker, and Peter Stepan
200 pages with 90 duotone and 148 black-and-white illustrations
More than ninety of the century's best photographers are presented in this richly illustrated volume... Tovább

Fülszöveg

¦ Some 160 masterpieces by more than 90 photographers
¦ An invaluable collection of the century's most powerful and moving images
¦ Poignant photographs, born of the moment yet of enduring quality, which capture the history, fate, dreams, and hopes that defined the twentieth century
¦ A fascinating journey to the greatest cities and the most remote landscapes of North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa
¦ Insightful texts by renowned photography critics on the "icons of photography" presented in this exquisite volume, complete with biographies of the photographers
Icons of
PHOTOGRAPHY
THE 20TH CENTURY Edited by Peter Stepan
With contributions by Eri1a Billeter, A. D. Coleman, Ludger Derenthal, Klaus Honnef, Reinhold Misselbeck, Herbert Molderings, Ulrich Pohlmann, Anne W.Tucker, and Peter Stepan
200 pages with 90 duotone and 148 black-and-white illustrations
More than ninety of the century's best photographers are presented in this richly illustrated volume with some 160 icons of the genre. Following the outstanding success of the two Prestel publications Icons of Art and Icons of Architecture, this selection focuses not only on universally famous and artistically stunning images by renowned photographers, but also on the discovery of lesser known pictures of exquisite quality
¦ A chronologically arranged overview of famous icons of photography from 1900 to the present
¦ The best in photography by pioneers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, and Robert Mapplethorpe
¦ Groundbreaking photographers such as Helen Levitt, Tina Modotti, Martin Munkácsi, and Garry Winogrand
¦ Breathtaking and accomplished shots by Ansel Adams, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mario Giacomelli, and Edward Weston
¦ Powerful images by Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, Sebastiao Salgado, and David Seymour
c Concise texts by internationally acclaimed authors, with informative biographical sketches and portraits of the photographers
The range of subject material, from the portrait to po-liticai or social reportage, from genre images to abstract or subjective photography, is matched oniy by the stylistic variety of the selected works. These reflect the multiplicity of this century's artistic movements and lend them new expression through their clarity and focus. More than any other artistic medium, photography has changed the way we view our world at the close of the twentieth century, a fact that is dearly reflected in this invaluable volume.
Peter Stepan is an art historian and a freelance editor specializing in photography, ethnography, and twentieth-century art. Vissza