TASCHEN 25 - Special edition!

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Each chapter of the two Photo Icons volumes focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts.

Volume I begins with the very first permanent images (Nice"phore Nie"pce"s 1827 8-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre"s famous 1839 street scene) and takes the reader up through the avant-garde photography of the 1920s.

Volume II explores works such as Dorothea Lange"s Migrant Mother (1936) and Robert Doisneau"s Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950), up through Martin Parr"s "New European photography."

About the Series:
More bang for your buck! "... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review

About the author:
Hans-Michael Koetzle is a Munich-based freelance author and journalist, focusing mainly on history and the aesthetics of photography. He has published numerous books on photography, including Die Zeitschrift twen (1995), Photo Icons (2001), Das Lexikon der Fotografen (2002), and Rene" Burri (2004).