Photography: A Concise HistoryThis brilliant study provides a unique guide to the photographers in the world, from Fox Talbot, the father of photography, to the masters of today. |
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... Bill Brandt , whose books The English at Home and A Night in London were published in 1936 and 1938 respectively . Despite a certain amount of foreign influence , in particular that of Brassaï's Paris by Night , both surveys are rooted ...
... Bill Brandt , whose books The English at Home and A Night in London were published in 1936 and 1938 respectively . Despite a certain amount of foreign influence , in particular that of Brassaï's Paris by Night , both surveys are rooted ...
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... Bill Brandt and Roger Schall , could be a medium for personal expression . William Klein , author and photographer of New York ( 1956 ) and Rome ( 1959 ) , made the same claim , and made it more vigorously than any of his contemporaries ...
... Bill Brandt and Roger Schall , could be a medium for personal expression . William Klein , author and photographer of New York ( 1956 ) and Rome ( 1959 ) , made the same claim , and made it more vigorously than any of his contemporaries ...
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... Bill Brandt made his sombre landscapes in the 1940s they were landscapes of feeling , rather than embodiments of a transcendent force ringing through nature . Paul Joyce allows for a harmony in nature , but habitually underlines his own ...
... Bill Brandt made his sombre landscapes in the 1940s they were landscapes of feeling , rather than embodiments of a transcendent force ringing through nature . Paul Joyce allows for a harmony in nature , but habitually underlines his own ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Instantaneous Pictures | 28 |
Documentary Meanings | 48 |
Copyright | |
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