Photo: p. 96 The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville, Robert Doisneau, c. 1950 — Getty Images 119002427
Over its two-hundred-year history, photography has developed more rapidly than other forms of visual art. This Short History of Photography presents the medium’s principal genres and styles, together with the technological advances from the early camera obscura to the modern single-lens reflex camera.
The book also includes fifty iconic photographs—from Pictorialism and photojournalism to abstraction and straight photography—that greatly influenced photography’s development.
It guides photography enthusiasts through the most important movements, themes, and techniques and shows how they are interconnected.
The accessible, concise, and extensively illustrated text explains how, why, and when particular photographs truly changed the world.
The book is filled with photographs by celebrated leading photographers and shows the different techniques used to create them. It explains established terminology and gives readers insight into the world of photography.
Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘Photographs are not made with the camera… they are made with the eye, the heart, and the head.’
A Short History of Photography — Ian Haydn Smith
Pages listed in the article: 224
Price listed in the article: € 17.95
Publisher listed in the article: Uitgeverij Thoth, Bussum
ISBN listed in the article: 9789059960411
