Customer Rating: 
Summary: Bought this and its great
Comment: Bought this and its great.
I bought it for a present it came with out shrikwrap. So I thought whats the harm in looking, I sat and read the entire book in an evening, it is a fantastic read on the history of photography its themes and giants in the field, buy it go on it really is that good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An excellent cultural guide.
Comment: This book is an excellent guide to the culture of photography, examining various significant photographers, mostly 20th century. There could be more actual photographs but the text is intelligently written, making interesting links between various movements and styles. It tends to jump around the timeline a bit but is all the more interesting for that. Overall, a very good, if possibly subjective, view of photographic history which does not become bogged down in academia.
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Summary: An excellent read
Comment: I don't normally go for TV tie-in books but this book is an excellent read, and it makes you think about what photography all about.
The pictures are mainly the same as the TV series but photographs don't come over well on the box, far better to appreciate them reproduced properly and with time to see them properly.
It is a good introduction to many previously little known photographers and I was sorry when I had finished reading it as I would have liked more of the same!
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