Isms... Understanding Photography
Published on 22. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-7893-3792-4 (ISBN)
Description
Following on the heels of the highly successful Isms: Understanding Art, Isms: Understanding Architecture, and the latest volume in the series Isms: Understanding Modern Art comes this handy small-format guide to the history of photography. Loaded with reproductions of seminal works and rounded out with a glossary and index of names, this guide is the best and most concise single volume introduction for students and beginners
An engaging and informative guide to all the significant "isms" - schools and movements-- that have shaped photography from the earliest daguerreotypes through the 20th century and into the present.
An engaging and informative guide to all the significant "isms" - schools and movements-- that have shaped photography from the earliest daguerreotypes through the 20th century and into the present.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
110 COLOR & B/W PHOTOGRAPHS
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7893-3792-4 (9780789337924)
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Emma Lewis
Isms... Understanding Photography
Book
03/2018
Rizzoli International Publications
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Emma Lewis is an Assistant Curator at Tate Modern in London, where she has organized photographic acquisitions, curated collection displays - including 'Italian Modernist Photography' (2014) and 'Otto Steinert' (2015) - and delivered the major monographic exhibition 'Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017'. Prior to joining the Tate, she managed the archive of late photographer Terence Donovan and spent three years in the Department of Photographs at Phillips auction house. She contributes to Photomonitor and Tate ETC. and has written catalogue essays for a number of artists and photographers.