The Genius of Photography

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Genius of Photography
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gerry Badger
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 297,Width 232
Category/GenrePhotography and photographs
History of specific subjects
ISBN/Barcode 9781844006090
ClassificationsDewey:770.9
Audience
General
Illustrations over 170 colour and black and white photographs

Publishing Details

Publisher Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Imprint Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Publication Date 12 April 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Exploring the key events and the key images that have marked the development of photography, this title examines the evolution of photography in its wider context: social, political, economic, technological and artistic.

Author Biography

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. Author Location: London