Funny Pictures: Snapshots Collection [Hardcover]

Christian Skrein (Editor), Bodo von Dewitz (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2006

Description: Funny Pictures, which comes on the heels of the original Snapshots: The Eye of the Century, and helps to launch a series of themed books highlighting the best images from Christian Skrein's Snapshots Archiv Skrein (S.A.S.), is culled from over a century's worth of amateur photographs, nearly a million images. The selected photographic treasures document the private worlds of as many different types of people as can fit into its pages, and without exception catch the humor, intentional and unintentional, benign and cruel, raucous and dry, that sneaks into the frame. Bring a copy wherever gloominess or severity threatens.

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About the Author

Bodo Von Dewitz, born in 1950, has been Director of the Agfa Foto-Historama of Museum Ludwig in Cologne since 1985. He is the initiator of numerous exhibions on the cultural history of photography.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers; Bilingual edition (February 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3775716661
• ISBN-13: 978-3775716666
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,984,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)