The Story of Art — Photography

Author: (German) Wilfried Barthel
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: The primary purpose of this book is to invite you to experience the infinite joy brought by a certain art form. It attempts to guide you into a wonderful world of art with encyclopedic clarity, novel readability, and album-like appeal! Filling the gap between professional and leisure books, photography has provided humanity with a true reflection of the real world for over 150 years. In this relatively short time, photography has profoundly influenced the way we perceive things, and the works of photographers have honed or even permanently altered our understanding of the real world. This book is not intended to present a systematic, profound, and detailed history of photography to the readers, but rather attempts to outline the pulse of photographic development with classic works, describing the people and events that have significantly influenced this art. All technical developments that have played an important role in the origin and production of photography are described as part of the history of photography in this book. The book lists as comprehensively as possible the representative works of important photographers, the development process of photographic technology, and other major events that have influenced photography, as witnesses to the evolution of photography and the various styles and schools, thereby emphasizing the intrinsic connections between different eras of photographic history.