
Author/Contributor(s): | Clarke, Graham |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Date: | 05/08/1997 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
heliograph taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz and the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Clarke provides a groundbreaking examination of photography's main subject areas--landscape, the city, portraiture,
the body, and reportage--as well as a detailed analysis of exemplary images in terms of their cultural and ideological contexts. With over 130 illustrations, The Photograph offers a series of discussions of major themes and genres providing an up-to-date introduction to the history of photography
and creating a record of the most dazzling, penetrating, and pervasive images of our time.