Uniting prevously unpublished portraits wuth better-known works by David Wilkie Wynfield (1837-87), this intimate picture of nineteenth-century artistic London, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National POrtrait Gallery, is the first devoted exclusively to Wynfield's photography, and illustrates his unique contribution to art.
This book is a celebration of the most beautiful, meaningful & inspiring photographs that have arisen from this very modern medium. Organised chronologically, it traces the rapid evolution of photographic style, period by period & movement by movement. Detailed cultural & individual artist timelines clarify historical context.
An important contribution to the history of photography that approaches the biographies and creations of thirty-eight great photographers from a new angle In the history of photography, the lives of the major personalities behind the lens are often as captivating as the images they have left behind. Yet, while certain photographs have become world famous, indelibly printed on the cultural consciousness, the stories of the photographers have been all too often distorted, obfuscated, or overlooked, and their social and political environments misunderstood or forgotten. Lives of the Great Photographers brings together the engaging and entertaining biographies of thirty-eight pioneers in the field, selected, carefully researched, and narrated by respected photography expert Juliet Hacking. The entries evoke the lives and backgrounds of these landmark figures, bringing new light to their work and forging a better understanding of how they pioneered new techniques and approaches. 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, and many others, Lives of the Great Photographers captures from a new angle the contributions of some of the most masterful image-makers in history.
Umfassend, fundiert und fesselnd: 38 bedeutende Persönlichkeiten aus der Geschichte der Fotografie Sie waren Abenteurer, Exzentriker, Provokateure, Eigenbrödler. Die Biografien so mancher herausragender Fotografen sind nicht weniger spannend als die Bilder, die sie hinterlassen haben. Juliet Hacking porträtiert auf unterhaltsame und kenntnisreiche Weise 38 der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten der Geschichte der Fotografie. Indem sie Hintergründe und Zusammenhänge herausarbeitet, gelingt es ihr, uns die Menschen hinter der Kamera näher zu bringen und ein neues Licht auf ihre künstlerische Arbeit zu werfen. Die Porträtierten (Auswahl): Margaret Bourke-White, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Roger Fenton, Hannah Höch, Irving Penn, André Kertész, Man Ray, August Sander, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Madame Yevonde