Lives of the Great Photographers

ISBN-13: 9780500544440 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str.

Juliet Hacking

Opis

Lives of the Great Photographers brings together the engaging and entertaining biographies of thirty-eight pioneers in the field, selected, carefully researched, and narrated by respected photography expert Juliet Hacking. The entries evoke the lives and backgrounds of these landmark figures, bringing new light to their work and forging a better understanding of how they pioneered new techniques and approaches. The text is accompanied by a beautifully curated sampling of images, including many rarely seen portraits and self-portraits. With entries on Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Steichen, and many others, Lives of the Great Photographers captures from a new angle the contributions of some of the most masterful image-makers in history.

Recenzje

'A fascinating and entertaining book' - Black & White Photography

Spis treści

Introduction - Thirty-eight entries - Notes, credits, index

O autorze

Juliet Hacking has been Programme Director of the MA in Photography(contemporary and historical) at Sotheby's Institute of Art since 2006.Before that she was for three years Head of the Photographs Departmentof Sotheby's in London. Juliet has worked as a visiting lecturer at theUniversities of Derby and Reading and at the Courtauld Institute, andcurated the exhibition 'Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs byDavid Wilkie Wynfield' for the National Portrait Gallery, London.