{"product_id":"eyes-wide-open-100-years-hans-michael-koetzle-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 Heretofore unpublished documents from the archives of the Leica Camera AG round off this multifaceted one-hundred-year cultural chronicle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hans-Michael Koetzle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 386828530X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783868285307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kehrer Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.80h x 11.20w x 2.30d","brand":"Hans-Michael Koetzle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44055825383679,"sku":"9783868285307","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87b351e1-8d58-48fa-afc6-b26023bc2ef2.jpg?v=1685038005","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eyes-wide-open-100-years-hans-michael-koetzle-9783868285307","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}