CENTURY - One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope

Bernard, Bruce, ed.

ISBN 10: 0714838489 / ISBN 13: 9780714838489

Edité par Phaidon Press, London, 1999

A propos de cet article

Gigantic photo-history of the 20th C. with decriptive notes. Bright crisp near-new copy, with custom box with carry-handle. Shipping weight approx 15 lb, but no addl cost for domestic media mail. Box is 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 x 4, 1120 pp, b/w & color photos, index, nsavy endpapers. Fine unmarked, in VG+ custom box. Hardback in glossy navy boards w white titling, in matching box.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: CENTURY - One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope
• Éditeur: Phaidon Press, London
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0714838489
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780714838489
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 1st edition.
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • History, Politics, War, Biography

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Synopsis

Before even opening this award-winning book, you are struck by the sheer physical presence of Century. With 1,120 pages and 1,072 images, this colossal volume offers an informative, intimate and incisive insight into the twentieth century from the very beginning to the very end. Century is an extensive historical trajectory through the twentieth century, told through an eclectic yet exhaustive sequence of monumental photographic images.

More than any other before it, the twentieth century was one of unforeseeable advances, discoveries and victories as well as unanticipated atrocities and suffering. It was also the first century to have been documented entirely through the lens of the camera. The chronological journey of Century - in a visually extraordinary sequence of images - takes us from the end of Queen Victoria's reign, through the antics of Buster Keaton and the odyssey into outer space and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Assimilated from diverse sources across the world, the photographs are instantly arresting and tirelessly thought-provoking. Selected for their capacity to expose distinctly human stories with the dynamism that drives historical change, the tome combines iconic images with photographs previously unseen, from international political events to highly personal and anonymous vignettes.

Each photograph is substantiated by a brief but thorough historical explanation; every single scene is brought to life by evocative literary and political quotations. Century is as much an historical tour de force as it is an enlightening visual celebration of the past from a vast range of angles.

À propos de l'auteur

Bruce Bernard (1929-2000) was Picture Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine and in 1980 he produced Photodiscovery - a highly respected account of the revolution in attitudes to photography. Bernard was Visual Arts Editor of the Saturday Independent Magazine for its first four years. He curated the exhibition 'All Human Life' at London's Barbican Centre in 1996, and was the curator of a private collection of photographs. Century is the culmination of his extensive knowledge and the experience he gained during 30 years of looking at pictures.

Terence McNamee, who acted as historical advisor and wrote the historical background for Century, studied politics and international relations at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and at the McGill University, Montreal.