История фотографии

From Ansel Adams to Piet Zwart. The Museum Ludwig's handbook of photography in the 20th century The history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognised as a medium in its own right. Colo...

In the beginning there was light. The George Eastman House Collection: photography throughout the ages From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly A...

Pioneers in photography as an art form. Highlights from Stieglitz's legendary photo journal (1903–1917) Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a visionary far ahead of his time. Around the tur...

An exciting monograph dedicated to an extraordinary figure and one of last century’s most famous and influential artists. ​Man Ray (1890-1976) was a photographer, painter, and creator of objects, experimental films, and images which were ...

The Shot. The stories behind history’s most extraordinary photographs From Nicéphore Niépce’s 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop pictures to the horror of Nick Ut’s “napalm girl,” the 50 photographs in thi...

A celebration of the most beautiful, meaningful and inspiring photographs that have arisen from this very modern medium Photography: The Whole Story leads you through the world’s most iconic photographs – those images that have become ...

For the past 50 years, the covers of Rolling Stone have depicted the icons of popular culture — from John Lennon, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, and Steve Martin to Rihanna, Louis C.K., Adele, Radiohead, and Barack Obama — cement...

The history of photography is teeming with portraits of musicians made iconic by their album covers: Thelonious Monk by W. Eugene Smith, Miles Davis by Irving Penn, Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude, Laurie Anderson by Robert Mapplethorpe. The histor...

A leading representative of the Russian avant-garde, Alexander Rodchenko (1891 – 1956) revolutionized the world of graphic art, design and photography. The over 250 illustrations featured in this volume allow the reader to grasp the full for...

This is the first publication on American artist Curtis Moffat who is known for his dynamic abstract photographs, innovative color still lifes and some of the most glamorous society portraits of the early twentieth century. Moffat was also a pivotal ...

Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer when, in 1923, he was offered one of the most prestigious and most lucrative positions in photography – that of chief photographer for Condé Nast’s Vogue and Vanity Fair...

Paris promenade. Eugène Atget’s unique city portrait A flâneur and photographer at once, Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Li...

The definitive book on the work of a virtuosic and revered American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a ...

A detailed insight into the lives and careers of the great photographers In the history of photography, the lives of the major practitioners are as captivating and richly layered as the images they have left behind, many of which have become part ...

A masterful survey of the finest portraits by one of the most inventive photographic artists of the 20th century Man Ray was one of the most inventive photographic artists of the twentieth century. His creativity and appetite for innovation and expe...