EAN: 9780500544914

FACE TIME - PHILLIP PRODGER GEBUNDEN

From the daguerreotype to the digital age  Face Time is an accessible introduction to one of
photography's most popular subjects: ourselves. With over 250 illustrations  it presents rarely
seen treasures alongside works by the greatest names in photography  including
nineteenth-century pioneers Hippolyte Bayard and Julia Margaret Cameron  twentieth-century
masters Edward Weston  Lee Miller and Richard Avedon  and contemporary groundbreakers Newsha
Tavakolian  Rineke Dijkstra and Zanele Muholi. It also immortalizes some of photography's most
iconic subjects  such as Queen Elizabeth II  Barack Obama  Marilyn Monroe  Frida Kahlo  Truman
Capote and many others. Transcending time and space  the book adopts a fresh  thematic approach
to the history of photographic portraiture in eight chapters  tracing a wide range of
applications and influences across the spheres of art  advertising  anthropology  fashion 
narrative  documentary and vernacular photography. Informative and insightful introductions to
each theme are followed by unexpected and thought-provoking curations of photographs  as well
as detailed commentaries on key images. The result is an ambitiously curated and visually
entertaining introduction to the history and themes of photographic portraiture  and an
inspiring journey through the ever-elusive question of human identity.With 250 illustrations in
colour

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