Photography: The Groundbreaking Moments
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From the invention of the camera obscura to the birth of digital photography, this history of photography's greatest advances focuses on individual artists, works, and moments that decisively shaped the evolution of a genre. Chronologically arranged, each chapter focuses on a particular work or idea that changed the course of photography. Presented in beautiful spreads and with informative text, the book opens with photography's genesis in the form of the camera obscura. Centuries later, Daguerre, Niepce, and Talbot invented their own means of capturing light on paper. The book covers ground-breaking genres such as still life, landscape, portraiture, and nudes. Sections on the role of photography in journalism illustrate how the camera's presence on battlefields, on city streets, and in factories helped inform and reform the modern world. Fashion, animals, Surrealism, and staged portraits are also explored. Perfect for perusing or reading from cover to cover, this book illustrates how photography developed from a concept to a world-changing force - one that attempted to shed light on truth yet can also obscure and alter reality in dazzling ways. 160 colour
Author: Florian Heine
Format: Paperback, 192 pages, 193mm x 240mm
Published: 2012, Prestel, Germany
Genre: Photography
Description
From the invention of the camera obscura to the birth of digital photography, this history of photography's greatest advances focuses on individual artists, works, and moments that decisively shaped the evolution of a genre. Chronologically arranged, each chapter focuses on a particular work or idea that changed the course of photography. Presented in beautiful spreads and with informative text, the book opens with photography's genesis in the form of the camera obscura. Centuries later, Daguerre, Niepce, and Talbot invented their own means of capturing light on paper. The book covers ground-breaking genres such as still life, landscape, portraiture, and nudes. Sections on the role of photography in journalism illustrate how the camera's presence on battlefields, on city streets, and in factories helped inform and reform the modern world. Fashion, animals, Surrealism, and staged portraits are also explored. Perfect for perusing or reading from cover to cover, this book illustrates how photography developed from a concept to a world-changing force - one that attempted to shed light on truth yet can also obscure and alter reality in dazzling ways. 160 colour
Photography: The Groundbreaking Moments