{"product_id":"photo-icons-50-landmark-photographs-and-their-stories-9783836577748","title":"Photo Icons. 50 Landmark Photographs and Their Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our \u003cstrong\u003ecollective consciousness, defining eras, making history, \u003c\/strong\u003e or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe. To explore this unique influence, \u003cem\u003ePhoto Icons\u003c\/em\u003e puts some of the most \u003cstrong\u003eimportant photographic landmarks under the microscope.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From some of the earliest photography, such as Nicéphore Niépce's 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1838 street scene, through to Martin Parr, this is as much a history of the medium as a case-by-case analysis of its social, historical, and artistic impact. We take in \u003cstrong\u003eexperimental Surrealist shots of the 1920s \u003c\/strong\u003eand the \u003cstrong\u003egritty photorealism of the 1930s\u003c\/strong\u003e, including Dorothea Lange's \u003cem\u003eMigrant Mother. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We witness the \u003cstrong\u003epower-makers \u003c\/strong\u003e(Che Guevara) and the \u003cstrong\u003eheartbreakers\u003c\/strong\u003e (Marilyn Monroe) as well as the \u003cstrong\u003egreat gamut of human emotions and experiences \u003c\/strong\u003eto which photography bears such vivid witness: from the euphoric \u003cem\u003eKiss in Front of City Hall \u003c\/em\u003e(1950) by Doisneau to the horror of Nick Ut's \u003cem\u003eNapalm Against Civilians \u003c\/em\u003eshowing nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phúc running naked toward the camera from South Vietnamese napalm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKoetzle, Hans-Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Hans-Michael Koetzle, born 1953, is a Munich-based freelance author and journalist, focusing mainly on history and the aesthetics of photography. He has published numerous books on photography, including Die Zeitschrift twen (1995), Photo Icons (2001), Das Lexikon der Fotografen (2002), René Burri (2004), Photographers A-Z (2011) and Dr. Paul Wolff \u0026amp; Tritschler (2019).","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642050547986,"sku":"9783836577748","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f82b296-87fd-4417-9fbf-5d88c31bfb89.jpg?v=1733054200","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/photo-icons-50-landmark-photographs-and-their-stories-9783836577748","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}