{"product_id":"photo-icons-50-landmark-photographs-hans-michael-koetzle-9783836577748","title":"Photo Icons. 50 Landmark Photographs and Their Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our \u003cstrong\u003ecollective consciousness, defining eras, making history, \u003c\/strong\u003e or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe. To explore this unique influence, \u003cem\u003ePhoto Icons\u003c\/em\u003e puts some of the most \u003cstrong\u003eimportant photographic landmarks under the microscope.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From some of the earliest photography, such as Nic駱hore Ni駱ce'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 \u003cstrong\u003eexperimental Surrealist shots of the 1920s \u003c\/strong\u003eand the \u003cstrong\u003egritty photorealism of the 1930s\u003c\/strong\u003e, including Dorothea Lange's \u003cem\u003eMigrant Mother. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We witness the \u003cstrong\u003epower-makers \u003c\/strong\u003e(Che Guevara) and the \u003cstrong\u003eheartbreakers\u003c\/strong\u003e (Marilyn Monroe) as well as the \u003cstrong\u003egreat gamut of human emotions and experiences \u003c\/strong\u003eto which photography bears such vivid witness: from the euphoric \u003cem\u003eKiss in Front of City Hall \u003c\/em\u003e(1950) by Doisneau to the horror of Nick Ut's \u003cem\u003eNapalm Against Civilians \u003c\/em\u003eshowing nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Ph昱 running naked toward the camera from South Vietnamese napalm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hans-Michael Koetzle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3836577747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783836577748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Taschen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.85w x 1.50d","brand":"Hans-Michael Koetzle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44049285153023,"sku":"9783836577748","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee75a1a8-e1b7-4895-b5bc-71aa67332ebc.jpg?v=1685000698","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/photo-icons-50-landmark-photographs-hans-michael-koetzle-9783836577748","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}