Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait - Hardcover

Prodger, Phillip

 
9780500544914: Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0500544913 ISBN 13: 9780500544914
Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Face TimeOrganized into eight thematic chapters, curator and photography historian Phillip Prodger captures more than 150 years of photographic portraiture, including nineteenth-century pioneers Hippolyte Bayard and William Henry Fox Talbot, modernist icons Lee Miller and Aleksander Rodchenko, as well as contemporary groundbreakers Newsha Tavakolian, Rineke Dijkstra, and Zanele Muholi.Prodger takes readers through the key questions of photography and dives into complex explorations of identity, representation, and purpose. Intelligently selected, this introduction to the history of the photographic portrait is comprehensive and groundbreaking in scope. Featuring portraits of great figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, Barack Obama, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Yuri Gagarin, Prodger aligns some of the best-known portraits ever made alongside rarely seen gems to tell the story of one of photography’s most popular engagements: us.

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Phillip Prodger is a curator, author and art historian. Currently Executive Director of Curatorial Exhibitions in Los Angeles, he was formerly Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London and founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. His previous books include William Eggleston Portraits, Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution and Man Ray | Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism.

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From the daguerreotype to the digital age, Face Time is an accessible introduction to one of photography’s most popular subjects: ourselves.

With over 250 illustrations, it presents rarely seen treasures alongside works by the greatest names in photography, including nineteenth-century pioneers Hippolyte Bayard and Julia Margaret Cameron, twentieth-century masters Edward Weston, Lee Miller and Richard Avedon, and contemporary groundbreakers Newsha Tavakolian, Rineke Dijkstra and Zanele Muholi. It also immortalizes some of photography’s most iconic subjects, such as Queen Elizabeth II, Barack Obama, Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, Truman Capote and many others.

Transcending time and space, the book adopts a fresh, thematic approach to the history of photographic portraiture in eight chapters, tracing a wide range of applications and influences across the spheres of art, advertising, anthropology, fashion, narrative, documentary and vernacular photography. Informative and insightful introductions to each theme are followed by unexpected and thought-provoking curations of photographs, as well as detailed commentaries on key images.

The result is an ambitiously curated and visually entertaining introduction to the history and themes of photographic portraiture, and an inspiring journey through the ever-elusive question of human identity.

With 250 illustrations in colour

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500544913
ISBN 13 
9780500544914
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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