{"product_id":"eyes-wide-open-100-years-of-leica-photography-9783868285307","title":"Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003eA note in a workshop log proves that in 1914, Oskar Barnack put the finishing touches on the first working model of a compact camera for 35mm standard cinema film. He had not merely invented a new camera--the Leica (=Leitz\/camera), not introduced until 1925 due to the war--he in fact ushered in a paradigm shift in photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust in time to mark a milestone birthday of the legendary compact camera, and for the first time in this thematic breadth, this volume, with about eight hundred images, offers a wide artistic and cultural history of the Leica from the 1920s to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssays by international authors examine topics including the technical genesis of the Leica, its influence on photojournalism, and its significance for a wide variety of avant-garde currents in art photography. Heretofore unpublished documents from the archives of the Leica Camera AG round off this multifaceted one-hundred-year cultural chronicle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes photographs by Michael Ackerman, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Ilse Bing, Ren  Burri, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mark Cohen, Bruce Davidson, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Alberto Garcia Alix, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Ralph Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Ren  Groebli, George Grosz, Ara G ler, Elisabeth Hase, Fred Herzog, Frank Horvat, Thomas Hoepker, Barbara Klemm, William Klein, Robert Lebeck, Saul Leiter, Ulrich Mack, Ram n Masats, Susan Meiselas, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Will McBride, L szl  Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Rodtschenko, Paolo Roversi, Erich Salomon, Jeanloup Sieff, Klavdij Sluban, Louis Stettner, Christer Str mholm, Sabine Weiss, Kai Wiedenh fer, Tom Wood, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHans-Michael Koetzle\u003c\/b\u003e is a Munich-based freelance author and journalist, focusing mainly on history and the aesthetics of photography. He has published numerous books on photography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kehrer Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50367535120658,"sku":"9783868285307","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62d03288-937e-4302-ba95-a7e9a3ce0c0b.jpg?v=1728494858","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eyes-wide-open-100-years-of-leica-photography-9783868285307","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}