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Photographers A-Z [Hardcover]

Hans Michael Koetzle , Hans-Michael Koetzle
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April 1, 2011

The greatest photographers of the last 100 years

A comprehensive overview of the most influential photographers of the last century and their finest monographs: Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer and photographic artist of the 20th century, from the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to the immediate present.

Richly illustrated with facsimiles from books and magazines, this book includes all the major photographers of the last hundred years—especially those who have distinguished themselves with important publications or exhibitions, or who have made a significant contribution to the culture of the photographic image. While most of the 400-plus entries feature North American or European photographers, the scope is worldwide, with significant emphasis on the photography of Japan and Latin America, Africa and China.

Photography in Print A-Z focuses on photographic images and culture, but also features photographers working in "applied" areas, whose work goes beyond the merely illustrative, and is regarded as photographic art or is conserved by major museums, such as Julius Shulman, Terry Richardson, Cindy Sherman, and David LaChapelle, etc.

Featured photographers include:

Ansel Adams, Manuel Álvarez-Bravo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Elmer Batters, Peter Beard, Cecil Beaton, Werner Bischof, Guy Bourdin, Bill Brandt, Robert Capa, William Claxton, Anton Corbijn, Robert Doisneau, William Eggleston, Masahisa Fukase, Nan Goldin, Jean-Paul Goude, John Heartfield, Eikoh Hosoe, George Hoyningen-Huene, Seydou Keïta, William Klein, Nick Knight, Neil Leifer, Peter Lindbergh, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Helmut Newton, Martin Parr, Irving Penn, Pierre et Gilles, Bettina Rheims, Leni Riefenstahl, Sebastião Salgado, Steve Schapiro, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Kishin Shinoyama, Jeanloup Sieff, Lord Snowdon, Bert Stern, Larry Sultan, Mario Testino, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ellen von Unwerth, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Weegee, Gary Winogrand and many more.


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About the Author

About the author:
Hans-Michael Koetzle is a Munich-based freelance author and journalist, focusing mainly on history and the aesthetics of photography. He has published numerous books on photography, including Die Zeitschrift twen (1995), Photo Icons (2001), Das Lexikon der Fotografen (2002), and René Burri (2004).


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 444 pages
  • Publisher: Taschen (April 1, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 3836511096
  • ISBN-13: 978-3836511094
  • Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 1.7 x 9.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #684,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Snap March 19, 2011
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A fascinating book about four hundred photographers that obviously invites comparison with Phaidon's The Photo Book which featured five hundred alphabetically. Both books come from European publishers and reflect a world view of the art though I thought Koetzle's was perhaps a more personal choice.

There is an important visual difference between the two books that might be relevant to potential buyers. The Phaidon book has a simple format of one large photo a page for each photographer plus some short biographic detail and it works well enough. The Taschen title presents the photos as facsimiles from a photographer's published books so the actual shots are really large thumbnails, very similar to Parr and Badger's two volume history of the photo book. As a publication designer I love this format but it might not suit everyone especially if they expect to see large photos in their art books.

As well as the book spreads each photographer has a hundred words or so biography and a selective exhibition and book listing. The four hundred chosen by Koetzle for inclusion do seem to me rather personal. Jack Delano and Russell Lee are not included, Julius Shulman is but not Ezra Stoller. Magazine art directors Alexander Liberman and Alexey Brodovitch are here and so is painter David Hockney but James VanDeZee isn't. Still, there are a lot of European and Japanese camera folk I'm not familiar with so turning the pages was a pleasant bit of photographic serendipity.

The really big names, for example: Capa; Cartier-Bresson; Frank; Lartique; Leibovitz; Renger-Patzsch; Rodchenko get two pages with spreads from two or three books or magazines (oddly Walker Evans only gets a page with two spreads from Fortune magazine). The book's production is the quality one would expect from Taschen, a matt art with 175 screen. I found a slight annoyance with some of the text setting, though. The biographies are set in one long block with no paragraphs and the book and exhibition listings are printed in a grey tint making them a bit hard to read in artificial light. Nicely all the book and magazine facsimiles have a tone drop shadow which gives them a slight dimensional feel on the page.

The Phaidon and this one are both reference books to great photographers but presented in two different formats. I like looking through both but have a preference for Koetzle's edition.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lost opportunity January 29, 2013
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Pretty comprehensive collection. As another reviewer has mentioned, the photos in the book are facsimiles of photos from books and occasionally magagzine work. And visually it looks good. But the notes on each photographer and their work read like quick notes that were simply transcribed and printed rather than thought through and edited. And the bibiographies did not indicate the most important work. I would probably buy it again, just for the photos; but I wish the author had done a better job on the text.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Pantheon of Premier Photographers September 14, 2011
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This an encyclopedic presentation of premier photographers in alphabetic order from Aarons to Zwart.

The author describes it as a "sort of pantheon" of photographers whose works are recognized internationally and who have contributed to the "culture of the photographic image."

As I reviewed it, I wondered for whom it was being published? For those photographers who were lucky enough to be listed, for other professional photographers, or for the general art loving audience? As it is presently organized you need to know you are looking for, like looking for a word in a dictionary. Moreover like searching for a word, you frequently miss the opportunity to find other words. Only by happenstance will you discover new ones.

I believe Quetzal could have improved the value of this fine collection if he organized it into certain genres or types of photography, i.e., landscape, fashion, commercial-advertising, exotic, people, animals, portraiture, urban, rural, era, etc. That way the user could discover artists of a similar bent by searching within that category. Of course, comparisons could also be facilitated. It could help the editor as well by identifying any gaps or under-representations in a well-rounded pantheon.

In deference to other professional photographers who may be looking at the works of their idols in this book, he could have included some insight as to their technique, equipment or philosophy used. This could "up the value proposition" of the book for that audience enormously.

Finally, for the general art audience perhaps a bit more information could have been offered on just what is so unique about the individual photos. For non-photographers it is not clear what makes a great photograph.

Just some thoughts.
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