What Makes Great Photography: 80 Masterpieces Explained

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Frances Lincoln Limited, 2013 - Photography - 223 pages
Why are some photographs so much more effective and powerful than others? This book showcases 80 outstanding photographs from the first daguerrotypes to today's digital masterpieces and by photographers as diverse as Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Ernst Haas, and Don McCullin.

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What Makes Great Photography: 80 Masterpieces Explained
Val Williams
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About the author (2013)

Val Williams is professor of the history and culture of photography and director of the Photography and Archive Research Centre at the London College of Communication, where she initiates new research projects. She was the joint curator of How We Are: Photographing Britain for Tate Britain in 2006. She is also an editor of the journal Photography & Culture, launched in 2008.

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TitleWhat Makes Great Photography: 80 Masterpieces Explained
AuthorVal Williams
Editionillustrated
PublisherFrances Lincoln Limited, 2013
ISBN0711235066, 9780711235069
Length223 pages
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