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The Genius of Photography [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Gerry Badger (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd (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 (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,653 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent cultural guide., 26 Feb 2008
By J. R. Precious "jprecious" (West Yorkshire, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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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.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read, 23 Jan 2008
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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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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought this and its great, 26 Nov 2008
Bought this and its great.

I bought it for a present it came with out shrikwrap. So I thought whats the harm in looking, I sat and read the entire book in an evening, it is a fantastic read on the history of photography its themes and giants in the field, buy it go on it really is that good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The history of..
I've seen the BBC-series a while ago. I was impressed then.
The book is even more impressive. Beautiful pictures, interesting text. Read more
Published 27 days ago by B. Martens

5.0 out of 5 stars very pleased
i bought this book for my husband for xmas and he was vey pleased with it .its the first time i bought him a book i was very pls with the servies i received and i would be... Read more
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A really interesting and well presented anthology of photographic history. There are some disappointing omissions but given that it's one man's views that is inevitable. Read more
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A very nice book the was the 'mate' to the TV programme. covers a few more things in better detail than TV. Has lots of excellent pics to look at.
Published 8 months ago by P. H. W. Cracknell

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius of photography 'Fantastic'
An excellent book, both visually and written. Superb guide through the history of photography, a must for anyone interested in photography!
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This book is very good, it came the next day - we paid for special delivery which was very expensive at £8+ but it came at 8. Read more
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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. Read more
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