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Isms: Understanding Photography

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Isms: Understanding Photography offers a comprehensive journey through the history of photography, exploring key trends, movements, and influential photographers from the invention of the photographic process to the contemporary post-internet era. Organised chronologically, it delivers clear, scholarly insights in an accessible style, making complex themes easy to understand for readers interested in the evolution of this art form over the last 170 years.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for interested general readers and students who seek a detailed yet approachable guide to the major developments and themes in photography. It suits those wanting to deepen their understanding of photography as both an art and cultural phenomenon.

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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.

Clear and concise, this pocket-sized introduction to photography is perfect for the general reader and student, covering key trends and movements from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474277594

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 February 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 127.0mm

Weight: 382g

Pages: 168

About the Author

Emma Lewis is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, London, UK, where she has worked on photographic acquisitions, curated collection displays – including Italian Modernist Photography (2014) and Otto Steinert (2015) – and is currently researching a major monographic photography exhibition opening in Spring 2017. Prior to joining Tate, she managed the archive of late photographer Terence Donovan and spent three years in the Department of Photographs at Phillips, London. Emma contributes to Photomonitor and Tate ETC. and has written catalogue essays for a number of artists and photographers.

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