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Photo Icons. 50 Landmark Photographs and Their Stories

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By (author): Hans-Michael Koetzle

Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our collective consciousness, defining eras, making history, or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe. To explore this unique influence, Photo Icons puts some of the most important photographic landmarks under the microscope.

From some of the earliest photography, such as Nicéphore Niépces 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerres famous 1838 street scene, through to Martin Parr, this is as much a history of the medium as a case-by-case analysis of its social, historical, and artistic impact. We take in experimental Surrealist shots of the 1920s and the gritty photorealism of the 1930s, including Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother.

We witness the power-makers (Che Guevara) and the heartbreakers (Marilyn Monroe) as well as the great gamut of human emotions and experiences to which photography bears such vivid witness: from the euphoric Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950) by Doisneau to the horror of Nick Uts Napalm Against Civilians showing nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phúc running naked toward the camera from South Vietnamese napalm.

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  • Weight: 976g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 195mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Oct 2019
  • Publisher: Taschen GmbH
  • Publication City/Country: Germany
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783836577748

About Hans-Michael Koetzle

Hans-Michael Koetzle born 1953 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) René Burri (2004) Photographers A-Z (2011) and Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler (2019).

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