Photo Icons The Story Behind the Pictures Vol 1 by Hans-Michael Koetzle. The stories behind history's most extraordinary photographs. Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world and influencing our perceptions of reality. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have, Photo Icons puts the most important landmarks in the history of photography under the microscope. Each chapter of this special edition focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts. The book begins with the very first permanent images (Nicephore Niepce's 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1838 street scene) and takes the reader up through the 1920s with 20 iconic images looked at; Nicephore Niepce view from the study window 1827 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre Boulevard du Temple 1838 Hippolyte Bayard self portrait as a drowned man 1840 Eugene Durieu/Eugene Delacroix contractions musculaires 1856 Robert Howlett Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1857 Auguste Rosakie Bisson the Ascent of Mont Blanc 1862 Nadar Sarah Bernhardt 1864 Francois Aubert Emperor Maximilians shirt 1867 Andre Adolphe Eugene Disderi dead communards 1871 Maurice Guibert Toulose-Lautrec in his studio 1894 Max Priester/Willy Wick Bismarck on his deathbed Heinrich Zille the wood gatherers 1898 Karl Blossfeldt Maidenhair fern 1900 Alfred Stieglitz the steerage 1907 Lewis Hine girl worker in a Carolina cotton mill Jacques-Henri Lartigue grand Prix de lA.C.F. 1912 August Sander young farmers 1914 Paul Strand blind woman 1916 Man Ray Noire et Blanche 1926

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