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This book is one in a series of titles being brought out by the Hutton Getty Picture Collection. Within the next year or so, every decade of the 20th century should have its own volume. Although widely available as a remaindered title, even full price these books are extraordinary bargains. Each volume contains over 300 photographs that provide a visual record of each decade.

This book is one in a series of titles being brought out by the Hutton Getty Picture Collection. Within the next year or so, every decade of the 20th century should have its own volume. Although widely available as a remaindered title, even full price these books are extraordinary bargains. Each volume contains over 300 photographs that provide a visual record of each decade.

686 color ills.

Dutch photography from 1839 to today, by Eduard Isaac Asser to Inez van Lamsweerde—a fascinating, comprehensive panorama. German Photo Book Award, 2008.

Inez van Lamsweerde, Rineke Dijkstra, Anton Corbijn, Ed van der Elsken, Paul Citroen, Erich Salomon, Eduard Isaac Asser: these are just a few of the famous names in the long tradition of Dutch photographic art represented in this volume.
For about twenty years, Dutch international photography has been on the upswing, yet there is still no comprehensive survey of it available on the book market. With a practically encyclopedic selection of what is obviously the most beautiful and exciting photography, Dutch Eyes tells the history of Dutch photography, embedded in the social, cultural, technological, and economic context of its time. In ten chapters on themes such as landscape, city, and photojournalism, the book spotlights the most important artists, the central developments, and the new directions in the country’s photography scene.

In search of a lost time

The most complete document of America's indigenous peoples

For over thirty years, photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) traveled the length and breadth of North America, seeking to record in words and images the traditional life of its vanishing indigenous inhabitants. Like a man possessed, he strove to realize his life’s work, which culminated in the publication of his encyclopedia The North American Indian. In the end, this monumental work comprised twenty textual volumes and twenty portfolios with over 2000 illustrations. No other photographer has created a larger oeuvre on this theme, and it is Curtis, more than any other, who has crucially molded our conception of Native Americans.

This book shows the photographer’s most impressive pictures and vividly details his journey through life, which led him not only into the prairies but also into the film studios of Hollywood.

Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer when, in 1923, he was offered one of the most prestigious and most lucrative positions in photography – that of chief photographer for Condé Nast’s Vogue and Vanity Fair.

Over the next fifteen years, Steichen produced an oeuvre of unequalled brilliance, dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary culture and its achievers – in politics, literature, journalism, dance, theatre, opera and, above all, the world of high fashion.

The 1920s and 1930s represent the high point in Edward Steichen’s photographic career, and the work he did for Condé Nast will stand forever among the most striking creations of 20th-century photography. The list of Steichen’s portraits is astounding in its range.

Steichen created a new style of fashion photography: his crisp, detailed, high-key style is a strong wind felt in the field to this day – George Hoyningen-Huene, Horst P. Horst, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Bruce Weber are only his most illustrious descendants.

The Steichen archive at Condé Nast contains more than two thousand original vintage prints. A few of the images are well-known and indeed feature as iconic images in various histories of photography. Until now, however, no more than a handful of these prints has been exhibited or published.

Paris promenade. Eugène Atget’s unique city portrait

A flâneur and photographer at once, Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris. He supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers, but became enraptured by what he called “documents” of the city and its environs. His scenes rarely included people, but rather the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that made up the societal and cultural stage.

Atget was not particularly renowned during his lifetime but in the 1920s came to the attention of the Dada and Surrealist avant-garde through Man Ray. Four of his images, with their particular fusion of mimesis and mystery, appeared in the surrealist journal, La Révolution Surréaliste, while Ray and much of his artistic circle purchased Atget prints. Atget’s fame grew after his death, with several articles and a monograph by Berenice Abbott. Several leading photographers, including Walker Evans and Bill Brandt, have since acknowledged their debt to Atget.

This fresh TASCHEN edition gathers some 500 photographs from the Atget archives at Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris to celebrate his outstanding eye for the urban environment and evocation of a Paris gone by. Down main streets and side streets, past shops and churches, through courtyards and arcades and the 20 arrondissements, we find a unique portrait of a beloved city and the making of a modern photographic master.

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Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

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František Drtikol (1883–1961) is considered to be the first Czech photographer enjoying international fame. Anna Fárová’s legendary exhibit in Prague in 1972 led to the rediscovery of his briefly forgotten work.

This elaborate, illustrated volume is devoted to the nude portraits, one of the focal points in Dritkol’s oeuvre. Art Nouveau and Symbolism were strong influences on his early photographs, in which his nudes are presented as dreamy nymphs or femme fatales.

After the end of World War I, he developed his own fascinating photographic style, characterized by geometric elements, expressive, dynamic poses, and dramatic lighting. An “Art Deco photographer,” as Fárová called him, Drtikol was inspired by Futurism, Expressionism, and Cubism to discover his own lyrical, formal vocabulary.

Though he is best known for his Art Nouveau and Art Deco nudes, when Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) passed way, he left more portrait photography than anything else--thousands of images made between 1910 and the 1930s.

This ambitious book is the first ever devoted to those portraits alone. The selection, culled from some 2,000 in Prague's National Archive, presents a gallery of eminent Czechs and Slovaks during the first Czechoslovak Republic, as well as prominent visitors to the country from many walks of life. Apart from their pure documentary value, these images reflect Drtikol's efforts to capture his sitters' inner selves, bridging idealism and materialism.

The artist has also been the subject of The Photographer Frantisek Drtikoland Photographs by Frantisek Drtikol; this volume is compiled and written by Josef Moucha.

10 volume set of photos and text from each decade of the 1900s: '00s through '90s. In English, Spanish and Italian. Each volume is 400 pages with 370 pictures. Organized by themes, including politics, pop, art and sport

In this book, the historical events that took place over a 150 year period are shown in a year-by-year timeline and documented by spectacular and amazing images charged with emotion.

Starting in 1850 this book charts the major and minor events that made history through evocative photographs, paintings and drawings. A fascinating journey in time through a lens. Around 150 detailed texts outline special events and comment on fascinating historical figures.

More than 6,000 events are listed all together. Around another 20,000 images are supplied on an enclosed CD-ROM.

From its earliest days, photography could not escape the pictorial traditions that had gone before it. This book, the first comprehensive study of Pictorialism in Europe, analyses the remarkable diversity of approaches taken by photographers across the Continent whose practice was infused with contemporary debate about photography’s relationship to art. Written by an international team of art and photography historians, Impressionist Camera examines the ways in which practitioners realized their pictorial vision, from the re-creation of Academic painting in photography to the use of soft focus to lend images an impressionistic quality. Also explored are the cross-currents with photography in America – where Pictorialism went on to flourish – including the seminal work of Alfred Stieglitz.

The first book to deal comprehensively with European Pictorialism, one of the major movements in the history of photography
Stunningly illustrated throughout with photographs from some of the most important collections worldwide
An essential reference for anyone interested in the development of photography and photographic techniques

Featuring rare and unpublished images of India, Sri Lanka and the subcontinent taken from the extensive archives of Getty Images. A history of India in images from Beato's photographs of the Mutiny to Tandulkar's record breaking 200 runs in 2010. Includes features on India's great photographers including Samuel Bourne, Felice Beato's and Julia Margaret Cameron.