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This title deals with masters and monographs. This is an encyclopedia of 20th century photographers and their finest publications. This is a comprehensive overview of the most influential photographers of the last century and their finest monographs. Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century, from the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to the present day. Richly illustrated with facsimiles from books and magazines, this book includes all the major photographers of the last hundred years - especially those who have distinguished themselves with important publications or exhibitions, or who have made a significant contribution to the culture of the photographic image. The 400 entries include photographers from North America and Europe as well as Japan, Latin America, Africa, and China. "Photographers A-Z" focuses on photographic images and culture, but also features photographers working in 'applied' areas, whose work goes beyond the merely illustrative, and is regarded as photographic art or is conserved by major museums, such as Julius Shulman, Terry Richardson, Cindy Sherman, and David LaChapelle, etc. Featured photographers include: Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Elmer Batters, Peter Beard, Cecil Beaton, Werner Bischof, Guy Bourdin, Bill Brandt, Robert Capa, William Claxton, Anton Corbijn, Robert Doisneau, William Eggleston, Masahisa Fukase, Ron Galella, Nan Goldin, Jean-Paul Goude, John Heartfield, Eikoh Hosoe, George Hoyningen-Huene, Seydou Keita, William Klein, Nick Knight, Neil Leifer, Peter Lindbergh, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Helmut Newton, Martin Parr, Irving Penn, Pierre et Gilles, Bettina Rheims, Leni Riefenstahl, Sebastiao Salgado, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Kishin Shinoyama, Jeanloup Sieff, Lord Snowdon, Bert Stern, Larry Sultan, Mario Testino, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ellen von Unwerth, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Weegee, Gary Winogrand and many more.
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Hans-Michael Koetzle is a Munich-based freelance author and journalist, focusing mainly on history and the aesthetics of photography. He has published numerous books on photography, including Die Zeitschrift twen (1995), Photo Icons (2001), Das Lexikon der Fotografen (2002), and Rene Burri (2004).
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A fascinating book about four hundred photographers that obviously invites comparison with Phaidon's The Photography Book which featured five hundred alphabetically. Both books come from European publishers and reflect a world view of the art though I thought Koetzle's was perhaps a more personal choice.
There is an important visual difference between the two books that might be relevant to potential buyers. The Phaidon book has a simple format of one large photo a page and some short biographic detail about the photographer and it works well enough. The Taschen title presents the photos as facsimiles from a photographer's published books so the actual shots are really large thumbnails, very similar to Parr and Badger's two volume history of the photo book. As a publication designer I love this format but it might not suit everyone especially if they expect to see large photos in their art books.
As well as the book spreads each photographer has a hundred words or so biography and a selective exhibition and book listing. The four hundred chosen by Koetzle for inclusion do seem to me rather personal. Jack Delano and Russell Lee are not included, Julius Shulman is but not Ezra Stoller. Magazine art directors Alexander Liberman and Alexey Brodovitch are here and so is painter David Hockney but James VanDeZee isn't. Still, there are a lot of European and Japanese camera folk I'm not familiar with so turning the pages was a pleasant bit of photographic serendipity.
The really big names, for example: Capa; Cartier-Bresson; Frank; Lartique; Leibovitz; Renger-Patzsch; Rodchenko get two pages with spreads from two or three books or magazines (oddly Walker Evans only gets a page with two spreads from Fortune magazine). The book's production is the quality one would expect from Taschen, a matt art with 175 screen printing. I found a slight annoyance with some of the text setting, though. The biographies are set in one long block with no paragraphs and the book and exhibition listings are printed in a grey tint making them a bit hard to read in artificial light. Nicely all the book and magazine facsimiles have a tone drop shadow which gives them a slight dimensional feel on the page.
The Phaidon and this one are both reference books to great photographers but presented in two different formats. I like looking through both but have a preference for Koetzle's edition.
***LOOK AT SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
There is an important visual difference between the two books that might be relevant to potential buyers. The Phaidon book has a simple format of one large photo a page and some short biographic detail about the photographer and it works well enough. The Taschen title presents the photos as facsimiles from a photographer's published books so the actual shots are really large thumbnails, very similar to Parr and Badger's two volume history of the photo book. As a publication designer I love this format but it might not suit everyone especially if they expect to see large photos in their art books.
As well as the book spreads each photographer has a hundred words or so biography and a selective exhibition and book listing. The four hundred chosen by Koetzle for inclusion do seem to me rather personal. Jack Delano and Russell Lee are not included, Julius Shulman is but not Ezra Stoller. Magazine art directors Alexander Liberman and Alexey Brodovitch are here and so is painter David Hockney but James VanDeZee isn't. Still, there are a lot of European and Japanese camera folk I'm not familiar with so turning the pages was a pleasant bit of photographic serendipity.
The really big names, for example: Capa; Cartier-Bresson; Frank; Lartique; Leibovitz; Renger-Patzsch; Rodchenko get two pages with spreads from two or three books or magazines (oddly Walker Evans only gets a page with two spreads from Fortune magazine). The book's production is the quality one would expect from Taschen, a matt art with 175 screen printing. I found a slight annoyance with some of the text setting, though. The biographies are set in one long block with no paragraphs and the book and exhibition listings are printed in a grey tint making them a bit hard to read in artificial light. Nicely all the book and magazine facsimiles have a tone drop shadow which gives them a slight dimensional feel on the page.
The Phaidon and this one are both reference books to great photographers but presented in two different formats. I like looking through both but have a preference for Koetzle's edition.
***LOOK AT SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Had found this book in Waterstones but it was twice the price I found on Amazon. Book is beautiful and is furthering my education about photographers and their styles. Is worth buying if your interest in photography goes past the camera.
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19 Mar 2011
Format:Hardcover
A fascinating book about four hundred photographers that obviously invites comparison with Phaidon's The Photo Book which featured five hundred alphabetically. Both books come from European publishers and reflect a world view of the art though I thought Koetzle's was perhaps a more personal choice.
There is an important visual difference between the two books that might be relevant to potential buyers. The Phaidon book has a simple format of one large photo a page for each photographer plus some short biographic detail and it works well enough. The Taschen title presents the photos as facsimiles from a photographer's published books so the actual shots are really large thumbnails, very similar to Parr and Badger's two volume history of the photo book. As a publication designer I love this format but it might not suit everyone especially if they expect to see large photos in their art books.
As well as the book spreads each photographer has a hundred words or so biography and a selective exhibition and book listing. The four hundred chosen by Koetzle for inclusion do seem to me rather personal. Jack Delano and Russell Lee are not included, Julius Shulman is but not Ezra Stoller. Magazine art directors Alexander Liberman and Alexey Brodovitch are here and so is painter David Hockney but James VanDeZee isn't. Still, there are a lot of European and Japanese camera folk I'm not familiar with so turning the pages was a pleasant bit of photographic serendipity.
The really big names, for example: Capa; Cartier-Bresson; Frank; Lartique; Leibovitz; Renger-Patzsch; Rodchenko get two pages with spreads from two or three books or magazines (oddly Walker Evans only gets a page with two spreads from Fortune magazine). The book's production is the quality one would expect from Taschen, a matt art with 175 screen. I found a slight annoyance with some of the text setting, though. The biographies are set in one long block with no paragraphs and the book and exhibition listings are printed in a grey tint making them a bit hard to read in artificial light. Nicely all the book and magazine facsimiles have a tone drop shadow which gives them a slight dimensional feel on the page.
The Phaidon and this one are both reference books to great photographers but presented in two different formats. I like looking through both but have a preference for Koetzle's edition.
>>>LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
There is an important visual difference between the two books that might be relevant to potential buyers. The Phaidon book has a simple format of one large photo a page for each photographer plus some short biographic detail and it works well enough. The Taschen title presents the photos as facsimiles from a photographer's published books so the actual shots are really large thumbnails, very similar to Parr and Badger's two volume history of the photo book. As a publication designer I love this format but it might not suit everyone especially if they expect to see large photos in their art books.
As well as the book spreads each photographer has a hundred words or so biography and a selective exhibition and book listing. The four hundred chosen by Koetzle for inclusion do seem to me rather personal. Jack Delano and Russell Lee are not included, Julius Shulman is but not Ezra Stoller. Magazine art directors Alexander Liberman and Alexey Brodovitch are here and so is painter David Hockney but James VanDeZee isn't. Still, there are a lot of European and Japanese camera folk I'm not familiar with so turning the pages was a pleasant bit of photographic serendipity.
The really big names, for example: Capa; Cartier-Bresson; Frank; Lartique; Leibovitz; Renger-Patzsch; Rodchenko get two pages with spreads from two or three books or magazines (oddly Walker Evans only gets a page with two spreads from Fortune magazine). The book's production is the quality one would expect from Taschen, a matt art with 175 screen. I found a slight annoyance with some of the text setting, though. The biographies are set in one long block with no paragraphs and the book and exhibition listings are printed in a grey tint making them a bit hard to read in artificial light. Nicely all the book and magazine facsimiles have a tone drop shadow which gives them a slight dimensional feel on the page.
The Phaidon and this one are both reference books to great photographers but presented in two different formats. I like looking through both but have a preference for Koetzle's edition.
>>>LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A Pantheon of Premier Photographers
14 Sep 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This an encyclopedic presentation of premier photographers in alphabetic order from Aarons to Zwart.
The author describes it as a "sort of pantheon" of photographers whose works are recognized internationally and who have contributed to the "culture of the photographic image."
As I reviewed it, I wondered for whom it was being published? For those photographers who were lucky enough to be listed, for other professional photographers, or for the general art loving audience? As it is presently organized you need to know you are looking for, like looking for a word in a dictionary. Moreover like searching for a word, you frequently miss the opportunity to find other words. Only by happenstance will you discover new ones.
I believe Quetzal could have improved the value of this fine collection if he organized it into certain genres or types of photography, i.e., landscape, fashion, commercial-advertising, exotic, people, animals, portraiture, urban, rural, era, etc. That way the user could discover artists of a similar bent by searching within that category. Of course, comparisons could also be facilitated. It could help the editor as well by identifying any gaps or under-representations in a well-rounded pantheon.
In deference to other professional photographers who may be looking at the works of their idols in this book, he could have included some insight as to their technique, equipment or philosophy used. This could "up the value proposition" of the book for that audience enormously.
Finally, for the general art audience perhaps a bit more information could have been offered on just what is so unique about the individual photos. For non-photographers it is not clear what makes a great photograph.
Just some thoughts.
The author describes it as a "sort of pantheon" of photographers whose works are recognized internationally and who have contributed to the "culture of the photographic image."
As I reviewed it, I wondered for whom it was being published? For those photographers who were lucky enough to be listed, for other professional photographers, or for the general art loving audience? As it is presently organized you need to know you are looking for, like looking for a word in a dictionary. Moreover like searching for a word, you frequently miss the opportunity to find other words. Only by happenstance will you discover new ones.
I believe Quetzal could have improved the value of this fine collection if he organized it into certain genres or types of photography, i.e., landscape, fashion, commercial-advertising, exotic, people, animals, portraiture, urban, rural, era, etc. That way the user could discover artists of a similar bent by searching within that category. Of course, comparisons could also be facilitated. It could help the editor as well by identifying any gaps or under-representations in a well-rounded pantheon.
In deference to other professional photographers who may be looking at the works of their idols in this book, he could have included some insight as to their technique, equipment or philosophy used. This could "up the value proposition" of the book for that audience enormously.
Finally, for the general art audience perhaps a bit more information could have been offered on just what is so unique about the individual photos. For non-photographers it is not clear what makes a great photograph.
Just some thoughts.
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