Isms: Understanding Photography

Isms: Understanding Photography packs an enormous amount of detail into a handy attractive guide tracing the evolution of photography through a series of interconnected trends groups themes and movements – from the invention of the photographic process to the post-internet age. Organised chronologically this is a uniquely international comprehensive guide to photography with concise readable and jargon-free but scholarly insight into major photographers movements and themes of the past 170 years. In an age where photography is of more resonance and interest than ever before Isms: Understanding Photography offers an in-depth and clear exposition of photography for the interested general reader or student.