📖 Photography. A Cultural History

The fourth edition of this comprehensive survey of international photography has been thoroughly revised and updated. Continuing to look at photography from a truly global viewpoint, and through the lenses of art, sciences, travel, war, fashion, the mass media, and individual photographers, this groundbreaking book has been revised to include new material and to expand topics that have received recent scholarly and public attention. These include a detailed study of the history of Chinese photography, new material on European Worker photography during the 1920s and 30s, and portraits of Conceptual artist Ed Ruscha and the German photographer August Sander. In addition to the many new pictures, both historical and contemporary, a spirited redesign visually integrates the chapters. Here is the history we've been waiting for... erudite and entertaining... she shows how pictures really did change our world. Her shrewd selection of over 600 fascinating photos (many in colour) illustrate a history that meets the ultimate test: open to any page and you're hooked... and it's free from tormenting academic jargon. Camera Arts.