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Item Number: 135461
Title: Lives of the Great Photographers
Author: Hacking, Juliet
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780500544440
Description: New York: Thames and Hudson, 2015. 26cm., hardcover, 304pp., 101 illus. Summary: In the history of photography, the lives of the major personalities behind the lens areoften as captivating as the images they have left behind. Yet, while certain photographshave become world famous, indelibly printed on the cultural consciousness,the stories of the photographers have been all too often distorted, obfuscated, oroverlooked, and their social and political environments misunderstood or forgotten. Lives of the Great Photographers brings together the engaging and entertainingbiographies of thirty-eight pioneers in the field, selected, carefully researched, andnarrated by respected photography expert Juliet Hacking. The entries evoke the livesand backgrounds of these landmark figures, bringing new light to their work andforging a better understanding of how they pioneered new techniques andapproaches. The text is accompanied by a beautifully curated sampling of images,including many rarely seen portraits and self-portraits. With entries on Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Steichen, andmany others, Lives of the Great Photographers captures from a new angle thecontributions of some of the most masterful image-makers in history.
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