Photography Today: A History of Contemporary Photography - Hardcover

Durden, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714845639 ISBN 13: 9780714845630

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2014

Synopsis

Presents a look at photography in the twenty-first century, dividing the topic into such categories as documentary, landscapes, history, the body, color, and constructions and presenting leading photographers and examples of their work.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Durden is a writer, artist and lecturer. He has written extensively on photography and contemporary art. Publications include Dorothea Lange (2001, 2012), Fifty Key Writers on Photography (2012), with David Campbell, Variable Capital (2007) and with Ken Grant, Double Take: Portraits from the Keith Medley Archive (2013). He is part of the artists' group Common Culture and currently Professor of Photography at the University of South Wales, UK.

Review:

"Deft cross‐referencing, only possible by a deep knowledge of the subject, is typical of the book as a whole. . .Durden employs a poetic approach to writing often, which gives the book a lightness, preventing it from becoming turgid, dull, or unnecessarily academic." – British Journal of Photography

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0714845639
• ISBN 13: 9780714845630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464