50 photos you should know /
Fifty photos you should know
Brad Finger.
- 153 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Includes index.
View of the Boulevard du Temple, Paris / Talbot's open door / Portrait of Gioachino Rossini / The Crystal Palace / The ruins of the Great Redan / Beato's Taj Mahal / The last tasmanian tiger -- The sweat shop / Early flight -- Machu Picchu / Scott's Antarctic voyage / Trench warfare in World War I -- Russian Revolution: demonstrations in Moscow -- Steichen's Greta Garbo / Henri Cartier-Bresson in Madrid / Opening ceremonies, Berlin Olympics -- Duke and Duchess of Windsor / Pablo Picasso by Lee Miller / Hindenburg disaster -- Dust bowl farm / Canyon de Chelly / Normandy landings -- V-J Day in Times Square / Hiroshima destroyed / Gandhi / Tenzing Norgay atop Mount Everest -- Cold warriors in space -- Civil rights movement -- Fans of the Rolling Stones -- The Silver Factory -- Brazil vs. USSR -- Nelson Mandela at Robben Island -- Execution in Saigon / The cultural revolution -- Iranian revolution -- Chernobyl -- Exxon Valdez oil spill -- Fall of the Berlin Wall -- Bosnian war -- Blood clot -- Andreas Gursky and digital photographic art -- 9/11 -- Surface of Mars -- Hurricane Katrina -- Three Gorges Dam -- The disappearing Aral Sea -- The last days of Osama Bin Laden -- Tohoku earthquake and tsunami -- Cairo revolution -- Royal wedding. Louis Daguerre -- Henry Fox Talbot -- Felix Nadar -- Philip Henry Delamotte -- James Robertson -- Felice Beato -- Lewis Hine -- Martin Chambi -- W. R. Bowers -- Edward Steichen -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Cecil Beaton -- Lee Miller -- Dorothea Lange -- Ansel Adams -- Alfred Eisenstaedt -- George R. Caron -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Eddie Adams --
This collection of world-renowned photographs offers a stunning visual history of photography and photojournalism. From war to nature, from movie stars to artists, and from the surface of Mars to the devastation of Katrina, the photographs record moments both intimate and earth-shaking.