Photo Icons: The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991

Crisp, as new book -- clean and bright inside and out with no fault of note. Jacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Measures 6-1/4"x9" and printed on heavy coated paper. Lavishly illsutrated with , stunning photograpoy accompanied by a lengthy text explaining the unseen story behind the iconic image. A beautiful book -- 351 pages.

From Publisher:

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.'

Product Info

ISBN: 3822840963

ISBN-13: 9783822840962

Publisher: Taschen America

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

Seller Info

GarrisonHouseBooks

Address: 329 Roshon Drive Medina, Ohio

Website: https://www.garrisonhousebooks.com

Country: United States