TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! "Fascinating for what it tells us about the history of body images and social codes." -The Independent, London

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! "Fascinating for what it tells us about the history of body images and social codes." -The Independent, London

Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. Through more th...(展开全部)

作者：(英)马克·德登（Mark Durden），英国作家，艺术家，南威尔士大学创意产业学院摄影系教授。著有《多萝西娅·兰格》（Dorothea Lange，2001，2012），《摄影研究的五十位重要学者》（Fifty Key Writers on Photography ,2012）。合著包括与大卫·坎贝尔(David Campbell)合作的《可变资本》（Variable Capital，2007），与肯·格兰特(Ken Grant)合作的《二次拍摄：基斯·梅得利文献中的肖像照》（Double Take: Portraits From the Keith Medley Archive，2013）等。此外，马克·德登还发表了大量关于摄影与当代艺术的文章。目前，他是艺术家小组“共同文化”(Common Culture)的成员。

Amazon.com Review One can only imagine the amazement felt by L.J.M. Daguerre, when, in the summer of 1839, he gazed upon the first photograph ever made. An image of the view from his Paris apartment of the bustling Boulevard du Temple, it was remarkably detailed yet mysteriously vacant, save for a single man in the distance who appeared to be having his boots polished; the rest...(展开全部)