This is Photography The First 200 Years /anglais - Couverture rigide

Herschdorfer, Nathali

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0500030367 ISBN 13 : 9780500030363

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

The ultimate guide to the magic and mystery of photography, featuring the landmark photographs, inventions, innovations, exhibitions and publications that changed the way we see the world.

Photography has not simply changed how we capture the world: it has changed how we view it, structuring our very ways of seeing. This ambitious publication, timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the first-ever photograph, brings together photographs from leading image-makers – including Zanele Muholi, Andreas Gursky, Man Ray, Sebastião Salgado, Hannah Höch, Barbara Kruger and Edward Steichen – alongside unexpected selections.

From the earliest 19th-century experiments in fixing light on paper, photography has blossomed and proliferated to a point where some 1.9 trillion photographs are snapped annually. Photographs are now at the core of our image-dominated culture. This is Photography: The First 200 Years carves a cohesive, compelling path through this dizzying mass of information. Presented chronologically, the book showcases key photographs and objects year by year, each one accompanied by a short text entry offering historical, technical or critical context. Interleaved throughout are longer thematic texts by contributing writers, as well as extracts from the writings of photographers and major thinkers on the subject, bringing a depth of understanding to the principal genres and developments in photography.

Alongside pivotal and instantly recognizable photographic works – from Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies to Rosalind Franklin’s DNA imaging, and from the documentary work of Robert Frank to Cindy Sherman – This is Photography records the objects, cameras, technical developments, exhibitions and publications that have shaped the medium, making this an essential resource for anyone interested in photography.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nathalie Herschdorfer is an author and curator specializing in photography. She is the director of Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a curator with FEP (Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography). Her previous publications include Man Ray: Liberating Photography, Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage, Body – The Photobook and Coming into Fashion, all published by Thames & Hudson.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

From the first, fragile experiments of the nineteenth century to the billions of images made and shared every day, photography has transformed how we see, remember, communicate, and understand one another. This is Photography: The First 200 Years tells that extraordinary story, charting a vivid path through the medium's evolution. Bringing together landmark images, unexpected discoveries, and emerging voices from across the globe, it reveals not just how photography developed, but how it developed us.

Accessible, richly illustrated, and incisive, this is the one book you need to grasp photography's remarkable journey--from scientific breakthrough to the defining visual language of modern life.

FEATURING

Ai Weiwei, Araki, Diane Arbus, Eugène Atget, Alice Austen, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke-White, Claude Cahun, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ernest Cole, Robert Frank, Andreas Gursky, Fan Ho, Hannah Höch, Eikoh Hosoe, George Hoyningen-Huene, Yousuf Karsh, Gertrude Käsebier, Seydou Keïta, André Kertész, Liu Zheng, Man Ray, Tyler Mitchell, László Moholy-Nagy, Zanele Muholi, Eadweard Muybridge, Nadar, Yasuzo Nojima, Martin Parr, Alexander Rodchenko, Viviane Sassen, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, Dayanita Singh, Alfred Stieglitz, William Henry Fox Talbot, Van Leo, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, Madame Yevonde, and many more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500030367
• ISBN 13: 9780500030363
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas