Bøker av Hans-Michael Koetzle

A century of stimulation, this collection of 1,000 erotic photographs from 1839 to 1939 includes every risque pose artists of each epoch could imagine. Drawn from the late Uwe Scheid's collection, a renowned repository of suggestive imagery, these pictures in monochrome and hand-colored tints reveal as much about the development of nude...

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 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 experimental Surrealist shots of the 1920s and the gritty photorealism of the 1930s, including Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother. We witness the power-makers (Che Guevara) and the heartbreakers (Marilyn Monroe) as well as the great gamut of human emotions and experiences to which photography bears such vivid witness: from the euphoric Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950) by Doisneau to the horror of Nick Ut's Napalm Against Civilians showing nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phúc running naked toward the camera from South Vietnamese napalm.

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 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 experimental Surrealist shots of the 1920s and the gritty photorealism of the 1930s, including Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother. We witness the power-makers (Che Guevara) and the heartbreakers (Marilyn Monroe) as well as the great gamut of human emotions and experiences to which photography bears such vivid witness: from the euphoric Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950) by Doisneau to the horror of Nick Ut's Napalm Against Civilians showing nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phúc running naked toward the camera from South Vietnamese napalm.

Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs. From the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to the present day, Photographers A-Z celebrates those photographers who have distinguished themselves with important publications or exhibitions, and who have made a significant contribution to the culture of the photographic image. The entries include photographers from North America and Europe as well as from Japan, Latin America, Africa, and China. Richly illustrated with facsimiles from books and magazines, the collection also features photographers working in "applied" areas, whose work is regarded as photographic art. Star turns include Julius Shulman, Terry Richardson, Cindy Sherman, and David LaChapelle.

Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs. From the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to the present day, Photographers A-Z celebrates those photographers who have distinguished themselves with important publications or exhibitions, and who have made a significant contribution to the culture of the photographic image. The entries include photographers from North America and Europe as well as from Japan, Latin America, Africa, and China. Richly illustrated with facsimiles from books and magazines, the collection also features photographers working in "applied" areas, whose work is regarded as photographic art. Star turns include Julius Shulman, Terry Richardson, Cindy Sherman, and David LaChapelle.

Fotos haben eine merkwürdige Macht, unsere Wahrnehmung zu formen. Die bekanntesten Bilder gelangen ins kollektive Bewusstsein , definieren Epochen, schreiben Geschichte oder berühren etwas so fundamental Menschliches und Universelles , dass sie weltweit nachwirken. Um diesen einzigartigen Einfluss zu erforschen, beschreibt und analysiert Photo Icons 50 ausgewählte Meilensteine der Fotogeschichte. Von den allerfrühesten Fotografien wie Nicéphore Niépces in achtstündiger Belichtung entstandene Aufnahme eines Daches (1827) und Louis Daguerres berühmte Straßenszene (1838) bis hin zu zeitgenössischen Künstlern wie Martin Parr ist dies ebenso eine Geschichte des Mediums wie eine Fall-für-Fall-Analyse seiner sozialen, historischen und künstlerischen Wirkung . Photo Icons enthält experimentelle surrealistische Aufnahmen der 1920er und Bilder des düsteren Fotorealismus der 1930er Jahre wie Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother . Wir erleben die Macher (Che Guevara) und die Herzensbrecher (Marilyn Monroe), sowie überhaupt die gesamte Bandbreite menschlicher Emotionen und Erfahrungen , von denen die Fotografie so lebendig zeugt: Doisneaus berühmten Kuss vor dem Rathaus (1950) oder den Schrecken von Nick Uts Napalm gegen Zivilisten (1972), das die neunjährige Kim Phúc zeigt, wie sie nackt vor einer Napalmwolke fliehend auf die Kamera zuläuft.