- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd; Reprint edition (7 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844003639
- ISBN-13: 978-1844003631
- Product Dimensions: 29.8 x 23.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 127,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Accompanying the first major television history of this ever more influential art form, this landmark book explores the key events and the key images that have marked the development of photography. At the heart of the book is a quest to understand what makes a truly great photograph. What is it that makes a photograph by Nan Goldin or Henri Cartier-Bresson stand out among the millions of others taken by all of us every single day? Why are some photographs elevated to the status of art - even after the event? "The Story of Photography" examines the evolution of photography in its wider context: social, political, economic, technological and artistic. It brings a critical perspective and a strong aesthetic sense to the subject, but above all it is primarily a narrative history. Beginning with the earliest days of the photograph in the 1840s and ending with an examination of the state of photography today and the effect that the 'digital revolution' will have, changing not only how we look at a photograph, but what it is in a physical sense. The book examines all the different genres of photography from art, news and reportage, landscape and portrait photography. It also tells the great stories behind many of the world's most iconic photographs and reveals the extraordinary characters - from Margaret Bourke-White to Cindy Sherman and from Louis Daguerre to Robert Capa who have made and defined this art form. And it explores the forces and contemporary resonances that have given these images their meaning and power.
About the Author
Gerry Badger is a photographer, architect, curator and critic. He has written extensively for the photographic press, and among his recent books are Collecting Photography, The Photobook: A History (with Martin Parr), and the text to a major monograph of the Berlin work of John Gossage, Berlin in the Time of the Wall (2004). Amongst the exhibitions he has curated were Photographer as Printmaker: 140 Years of Photographic Printmaking, the Arts Council of Great Britain travelling exhibition, 1981-82, and Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Great Britain 1945-1989, at the Barbican Art Gallery, 1989. His own work was included in The Garden in English Art at Tate Britain, London, in 2004.
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent cultural guide.,
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This review is from: The Genius of Photography (Hardcover)
This book is an excellent guide to the culture of photography, examining various significant photographers, mostly 20th century. There could be more actual photographs but the text is intelligently written, making interesting links between various movements and styles. It tends to jump around the timeline a bit but is all the more interesting for that. Overall, a very good, if possibly subjective, view of photographic history which does not become bogged down in academia.
39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent read,
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This review is from: The Genius of Photography (Hardcover)
I don't normally go for TV tie-in books but this book is an excellent read, and it makes you think about what photography all about.
The pictures are mainly the same as the TV series but photographs don't come over well on the box, far better to appreciate them reproduced properly and with time to see them properly. It is a good introduction to many previously little known photographers and I was sorry when I had finished reading it as I would have liked more of the same!
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The Genius of Photography,
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This review is from: The Genius of Photography (Hardcover)
Great book that goes with the excellent BBC series of the same name. Quality photographs from a variety of the best and most influential photographers the world has seen. Highly recommend as a reference or coffee table purchase!
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