Isms... Understanding Photography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780789337924)

Following on the heels of the highly successful Isms: Understanding Art, Isms: Understanding Architecture, and the latest volume in the series Isms: Understanding Modern Art comes this handy small-format guide to the history of photography. Loaded with reproductions of seminal works and rounded out with a glossary and index of names, this guide is the best and most concise single volume introduction for students and beginners

An engaging and informative guide to all the significant isms - schools and movements-- that have shaped photography from the earliest daguerreotypes through the 20th century and into the present.

Author: Emma Lewis
ISBN-10: 0789337924
ISBN-13: 9780789337924
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2022
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d

About the Author
Emma Lewis is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, London, UK, where she has worked on photographic acquisitions, curated collection displays - including Italian Modernist Photography (2014) and Otto Steinert (2015) - and is currently researching a major monographic photography exhibition opening in Spring 2017. Prior to joining Tate, she managed the archive of late photographer Terence Donovan and spent three years in the Department of Photographs at Phillips, London. Emma contributes to Photomonitor and Tate ETC. and has written catalogue essays for a number of artists and photographers.