
Isms: Understanding Photography (Paperback)
Emma Lewis (author)
£11.99
Paperback
168 Pages /
Published: 09/02/2017
- In stock
Isms: Understanding Photography packs an enormous amount of detail into a handy, attractive guide tracing the evolution of photography through a series of interconnected trends, groups, themes and movements - from the invention of the photographic process to the post-internet age. Organised chronologically, this is a uniquely international, comprehensive guide to photography with concise, readable and jargon-free but scholarly insight into major photographers, movements and themes of the past 170 years. In an age where photography is of more resonance and interest than ever before, Isms: Understanding Photography offers an in-depth and clear exposition of photography for the interested general reader or student.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781474277594
Number of pages: 168
Weight: 382 g
Dimensions: 127 x 203 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"This easy-to-use reference book is an introduction to the history of photography through art-historical categories ... An interesting and well-presented work. - Royal Photographic Society Journal
A well edited, concise, informative edition that's easy to read, and enlightening to boot. - Outlet Magazine"
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