The Genius of Photography by Gerry Badger
Explores the key events and the key images that have marked the development of photography. This book examines the evolution of photography in its wider context: social, political, economic, technological and artistic. It also examines the different genres of photography from art, news and reportage, landscape and portrait photography.
Gerry Badger is a photographer, architect, curator and critic. He has written extensively for the photographic press, and among his recent books are Collecting Photography, The Photobook: A History (with Martin Parr), and the text to a major monograph of the Berlin work of John Gossage, Berlin in the Time of the Wall (2004). Amongst the exhibitions he has curated were Photographer as Printmaker: 140 Years of Photographic Printmaking, the Arts Council of Great Britain travelling exhibition, 1981-82, and Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Great Britain 1945-1989, at the Barbican Art Gallery, 1989. His own work was included in The Garden in English Art at Tate Britain, London, in 2004.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844003631 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844003639 |
| Title | The Genius of Photography |
| Author | Gerry Badger |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quadrille Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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