(H/B-25) PHOTO ICONS (VOLUME 2) (3822818313)

Παρουσίαση

Each of the two volumes Photo Icons I and Photo Icons II presents 20 photographs from some 170 years, all arranged in chronological order. And every one of them is a key image from the history of the medium: images that have pushed photography forward in terms of either its technology, aesthetics or social relevance. There is a tradition to viewing "icons" such as these by themselves, each on their own. Best known in this context is John Szarkowski's classic book Looking at Photographs, first published in 1973. But going beyond Szarkowski's associative, journalese style, the present volumes also provide in-depth analyses of the contents. With the history of the picture's reception, we arrive at the question of when and in what way the motif became exactly what it is: a visual parameter for central categories of the human experience. Almost every technical approach and every major field of application (from portraiture to landscapes, from the nude to the instantaneous shot) has been included here, making the two volumes simultaneously a "potted history of photography". This prompts us to read pictures critically, to look at them more attentively and with greater awareness. As early as the 19205, Moholy-Nagy pointed to the dangers of visual analphabetism. That applied to the era of silver salts in the photographic lab. Yet it applies more than ever to the age of satellite TV, video and Internet. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface Hans-Michael Koetzle
Andre Kertesz Meudon,ig28
Robert Capa Spanish Loyalist, 1936
Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
Horst P. Horst Mainbocher Corset, 1939
Henri Cartier-Bresson Germany, 1945
Richard Peter sen. View from the Dresden City Hall Tower, 1945
Ernst Haas Vienna, 1947
Robert Doisneau The Kiss in Front of City Hall, 1950
Dennis Stock James Dean on Times Square, 1955
Robert Lebeck Leopoldville, 1960
Bert Stern Marilyn's Last Sitting, 1962
Rene Burri Che, 1963
Gerard Malanga Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground, 1966
Barbara Klemm Leonid Brezhnev, Willy Brandt, Bonn, 1973
Helmut Newton They're Coming!, 1981
Sandy Skoglund Revenge of the Goldfish, 1981
Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon, 1982
]oel-Peter Witkin Un Santo Oscuro, 1987
Sebastiao Salgado Kuwait, 1991
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