RODCHENKO, Alexander

HC with dust jacket, 25,5 x 34 x 2 cm., 104 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Juliet Hacking expertly portrays 38 of the most important personalities in the history of photography. By working out backgrounds and contexts, the portraits add to an entertaining overview of the great innovations, trends and developments in photography.

The catalog from Gropius Bau exhibition on Alexander RODCHENKO offers a broad overview of the many facets of his photographic oeuvre. It includes previously unpublished works from his estate and a readable essay on the photographic avant-garde in Russia.

The out-of-print catalog volume 'Soviet Photography of the 1920s and 1930s' shows the great creative wealth: photographers of Pictoialism and Soviet avant-garde developed in parallel with each other until Stalinist ideology gave a direction.

'Kiosk. A History of Photojournalism 1839-1973' by Robert LEBECK & Bodo von Dewitz (ICP Infinity Award 2002) leads you in nine chapters through the eras of international photojournalism and offers an overview of the topics of past decades and centuries.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 238 pp., 148 color and 30 b/w ills., 1,400 gr., text language: English

'Photographers A-Z' brings together photographers who have made a significant contribution to photographic culture, as well as the most important photographic volumes of the past century. The entries are illustrated with facsimiles from books & magazines.

The compendium 'Augen auf!' offers an art and cultural history of the Leica from the 1920s to the present day. With essays on the technical genesis of the Leica, its influence on modern photojournalism and its significance for the photographic avant-garde