This title deals with masters and monographs. This is an encyclopedia of 20th century
photographers and their finest publications. This is a comprehensive overview of the most
influential photographers of the last century and their finest monographs. Arranged
alphabetically this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th
century from the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to the present day.
Richly illustrated with facsimiles from books and magazines this book includes all the major
photographers of the last hundred years - especially those who have distinguished themselves
with important publications or exhibitions or who have made a significant contribution to the
culture of the photographic image. The 400 entries include photographers from North America and
Europe as well as Japan Latin America Africa and China. Photographers A-Z focuses on
photographic images and culture but also features photographers working in 'applied' areas
whose work goes beyond the merely illustrative and is regarded as photographic art or is
conserved by major museums such as Julius Shulman Terry Richardson Cindy Sherman and David
LaChapelle etc. Featured photographers include: Ansel Adams Manuel Alvarez-Bravo Nobuyoshi
Araki Diane Arbus Richard Avedon David Bailey Elmer Batters Peter Beard Cecil Beaton
Werner Bischof Guy Bourdin Bill Brandt Robert Capa William Claxton Anton Corbijn Robert
Doisneau William Eggleston Masahisa Fukase Ron Galella Nan Goldin Jean-Paul Goude John
Heartfield Eikoh Hosoe George Hoyningen-Huene Seydou Keita William Klein Nick Knight Neil
Leifer Peter Lindbergh Man Ray Robert Mapplethorpe Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Jean-Baptiste Mondino Helmut Newton Martin Parr Irving Penn Pierre et Gilles Bettina
Rheims Leni Riefenstahl Sebastiao Salgado Andres Serrano Cindy Sherman Kishin Shinoyama
Jeanloup Sieff Lord Snowdon Bert Stern Larry Sultan Mario Testino Wolfgang Tillmans Ellen
von Unwerth Andy Warhol Bruce Weber Weegee Gary Winogrand and many more.
