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Is photography art, documentary or both? Should images simply reveal the world we live in, or provoke us to think, act and react?

1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die is a visually arresting and invaluable guide to the history and practice of photography. Sweeping through the arts, fashion, society, war, peace, science and nature, the images in this enticing book are as eye-catching as the commentary is engaging. Some you have seen, others will be unfamiliar, but what all the photographs have in common is their ability to move you, shock you and open up the notion of what it is to be human.

Organized chronologically by the date that each image was made, and featuring a reproduction of each photograph, the selection provides some fascinating and unexpected juxtapositions. Insightful text uncovers the creative process behind each image, revealing its visual, aesthetic and historic significance. Why was the photograph taken? Was it set up? What was the intention? How did the world react?

From Roger Fenton to William Eggleston, from Henry Fox Talbot to Nick Knight, and from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Dorothea Lange, all the photographers featured in this book transgressed the boundaries of the camera with a skill and spirit that helped to develop their field into a highly evocative art form. Packed with information that will entertain, inform, educate and surprise you, 1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die is an essential reference for all lovers of photography.

Книга 1001 фотография, которую нужно увидеть – бесценный, захватывающий гид в историю и практику фотографии

Фотографии представлены в хронологическом порядке. Открывшийся калейдоскоп изображений покажется вам одновременно захватывающим и неожиданным. Содержательный текст раскроет подробности создания каждой работы, позволив оценить ее визуальную, эстетическую и историческую значимость.

Как появилась эта фотография? С какой целью? Как на нее отреагировали зрители?

Здесь вы найдете работы Роджера Фентона и Уильяма Эглстона, Уильяма Генри Фокса Тальбота и Ника Найта, Анри Картье-Брессона и Доротеи Ланж.

1001 фотография, которую нужно увидеть – источник развлечения, информации, образования и сюрпризов, уникальный гид для всех любителей фотографии.

Featuring black-and-white and colour photographs, this volume aims to lead observers through 150 years of the history of photo-journalism. Including both everyday life and the grandest events, it conveys the ideals and fears of the decades.

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Серія з чотирьох ілюстрованих книг, зібраних з архівів класичних журналів для дівчат Fiesta та Knave, яка оспівує епоху, коли гламурна фотографія більше прагнула до художніх ідеалів та пікантного збудження, ніж до сексуально відвертих прем'єрних видань сучасності. Статуйовані моделі 1950-х років приймали пози грецьких богинь у вишукано стилізованих декораціях, тоді як їхні еквіваленти з епохи розквіту шістдесятих демонстрували більш грайливу, майже наївну невинність. Десятиліття потому пін-ап дівчата 1970-х років, незмінно зняті в соковитій кольоровій гамі та розкішних декораціях, пропонували більш спокусливу привабливість, тоді як гламурні дівчата 1980-х років стали більш сексуально підкресленими у своїх позах та вбранні – або ж їх відсутності. Безліч красунь, що прикрашають сторінки цих чотирьох книг, ілюструє зміну облич – і тіл – гламурних моделей протягом чотирьох десятиліть, від скромних до збуджуючих, від спокусливих до запальних, від еротичних до непристойних.

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1970s Glamour

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A series of four picture books, compiled from the archives of the classic girlie magazines, Fiesta and Knave, which celebrates an age when glamour photography strove more for artistic ideals and risqué titillation than the sexually explicit top shelf titles of today. Statuesque models of the 1950s adopted the poses of Greek goddesses, in elaborately styled sets, while their equivalents from the Swinging Sixties displayed a more playful, almost naive innocence. A decade later, the pin-ups of the 1970s, invariably shot in luscious colour and sumptuous sets, offered a more seductive appeal, while the glamour girls of the 1980s became more sexually suggestive in their poses and attire - or lack of it. The bevy of beauties that graces the pages of these four books illustrates the changing faces - and bodies - of the glamour model over four decades, from the demure to the titillating, the seductive to the steamy, the erotic to the raunchy.

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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 (Nicéphore Niépce'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.'

This dynamic introduction to the world's greatest photographers from the inception of photography to today bears proof of the magic of the camera.

From Fèlix Nadar to Nan Goldin, each of the photographers featured here represents an important aspect of photographyís evolution.The artists are presented in double-page spreads that include reproductions of their most important works, concise biographies, informative sidebars, and a timeline that extends throughout the volume. The result is a fascinating overview of the way photographers continue to push the limits of their genre, offering their audiences new ways of seeing and understanding our world.

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50 Photos You Should Know

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50 Fashion Designers You Should Know

50 Contemporary Fashion Designers You Should Know

50 Designers You Should Know

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This generously illustrated book for lovers of photography includes 365 images from the greatest photojournalists of today and yesterday.

Founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos is an iconic international photographic cooperative whose members have captured the major historical events of their times, as well as private and intimate moments. A year’s worth of these images is offered in this beautiful book that features full-page reproductions organized to reflect what Cartier-Bresson himself declared a “community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually.” Nearly 70 photographers are represented with five to six images and the current Magnum members have selected the photographs that they consider to best represent their own output. Opposite each photograph is a page reserved for special dates, reflections, and notes. Published in an appealing and impressively-sized format, running more than 700 pages, this book includes images that make history both individual and universal.

Now available again in a stunning new format, this generously illustrated book for lovers of photography includes 365 images from the greatest photojournalists of today and yesterday.

Founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos is the iconic international photographic cooperative whose members have captured the major historical events of their times, as well as private and intimate moments.

A year s worth of these images is offered in this visually stunning book that features full page reproductions organised to reflect what Cartier-Bresson himself declared a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually.

Nearly 70 photographers are represented with five to six images each, and the current Magnum members have selected the photographs that they consider to best represent their own output. Running more than 700 pages, this book includes images that make history both individual and universal.

This book will introduce you to another, different world of auctions. For instance: the domain "business.com" has been auctioned for $7.5 million and is therefore the most expensive web address ever. But not only are the superlatives like the highest price or having the most bidders the auction highlights. The real gems are, inconspicuously at first, among the totally normal auctions. Bizarre, funny, astonishing, unexpected, shocking - just: amazing!

Weddings have always been very special events in all countries and cultural environments- they honour love. Therefore this ceremony between two people loving each other is being used to celebrate the most impressive and remarkable events-glamorous and posh-or just to do something really extraordinary. Even in history books you can read about great and unique weddings like the nuptials of Prince Charles and Diana or one of the latest ones, Liz Hurley getting married to Arun Nayar, her Indian billionaire. Exactly these special weddings will be presented in the book Amazing Weddings, it will even contain events that outbid all the extraordinary you have seen until today. You will find spectacular venues for tying the knot, unknown traditions and ceremonies as well as people who turned getting married into their profession and are now organizing and arranging these events and are making sure this day will really be the one to remember. This book will be for those willing to get married, romantics and those who are still as happily in love as on the day they met.

Photography helped shape art in the late twentieth century; in the twenty-first, it has begun to dominate it.
Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters, with their pieces commanding unprecedented prices.

This stunning survey presents the work of eighty of the most important and best-loved artist-photographers in the world today – such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Allan Sekula, Boris Mikhailov, Inez van Lamsweerde, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sam Taylor-Wood and many more.

Introductions to each section outline the current genres and consider why photographers are attracted to certain themes. Each photographer’s work is then presented in sequence, with commentaries by the author highlighting the art’s most important aspects. A general introduction sets out the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century and discusses the art world’s embrace of the medium in recent decades.

Art Photography Now is a truly comprehensive guide to the essential aspects of contemporary photography.

Best friends are worth their weight in gold, from the friend who stuck up for you in school to the one who props you up when everything gets too much. Your best friend may be the one who makes you laugh, smile, shout, perhaps even cry, but throughout it all they'll be the one who is there for you no matter what. This sweet book contains 50 wonderful photographs and quotations celebrating the enduring nature of true friendship.