H. M. KOETZLE

Este monumental diccionario es el resultado de un trabajo de investigación internacional realizada durante cinco años y presenta la biografía detallada de 549 importantes fotógrafos, ilustrada con más de mil fotografias. Entre los incluidos aparecen todo tipo de artistas y profesionales: pioneros, teoricos, miembros de distintos movimientos de vanguardia, documentalistas, fotografos de prensa, de moda, de arquitectura, retratistas, paisajistas... Las entradas que acompañan las imagenes incluyen una completa informacion relacionada sobre museos, colecciones, archivos, instalaciones, tendencias esteticas, clasificacion historica-artistica de cada fotografo, etcetera, una tarea para la que se precisa alguien de tan probado rigor academico y metodologico como su autor, el escritor y critico aleman Hans-Michael Koetzle. En definitiva, este volumen, cuya publicacion en España constituye todo un acontecimiento editorial, no es solo un diccionario biografico, sino tambien una historia, profusamente ilustrada, del arte de la fotografia desde 1900 hasta nuestros dias.

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 (Nicéphore Niépce'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.'

The stories behind history's most extraordinary photographs (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) 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 (Nic?phore Ni?pce'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.'

The collector: Uwe Scheid.This book offers a cross-section of the history of nude photography, ranging from the earliest nude daguerrotypes and ethnographic nude photographs to experimental nude photography. All the pictures shown are taken from the late Uwe Scheids collection, which was one of the worlds largest and most important collections of erotic photography.