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Iconic photos that defined eras, shaped history, and captured humanity’s heart.

Photo Icons

50 Landmark Photographs and Their Stories

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  • Hardcover

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    14 December 2019

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Summary

Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our collective consciousness, defining eras, making history, or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe. To explore this unique influence, Photo Icons puts some of the most important photographic landmarks under the microscope.

From some of the earliest photography, such as Nicéphore Niépce’s 18…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783836577748
ISBN-10:3836577747
Author:Hans-Michael Koetzle
Publisher:Taschen GmbH
Imprint:Taschen GmbH
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:14 December 2019
Weight:1.04kg
Dimensions:40mm x 140mm x 195mm
Series:Bibliotheca Universalis
A-Format
Photo Icons by Hans-Michael Koetzle - ISBN: 9783836577748
140 × 195 mm
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C-Format
A4
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About The Author

Hans-Michael Koetzle

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 & Tritschler (2019).

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