ABSTRACT
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, Understanding Photography offers an in-depth and clear exposition of photography for the interested general reader or student.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|24 pages
The Invention of Photography and the Recording of the World 1826-1910s
part 2|38 pages
Into the Modern 1850s—1930s
part 3|22 pages
Society & Humanity 1930s—70s
part 4|26 pages
The Postmodern 1950s-90s
part 5|22 pages
Contemporary Photography 1980s—
part |21 pages
Reference Section