Isms: Understanding Photography (Paperback)

Emma Lewis (author)

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Paperback 160 Pages / Published: 09/02/2017

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Synopsis

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: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781474277594
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 384 g
Dimensions: 200 x 135 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 *