150 Years of Photo Journalism/150 Jahre Fotojournalismus I.

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In a unique coílection of hundreds of photographs. the first volume of 150 Years of Photo Jounuilism gives a visual record of the years 1850 to 1918. the last and greatest period of European dominance of the world in culture. science and the weapons of destruction.
This is the story of an age when Europe sent traders. soldiers. missionaries and administrators to every continent: when neer-do-wells sought gold in ( alifornia and Ausíralia, when guilty lugitives sailed or steamed to countries raw and ripe for exploitation: and when hundreds of thousands of innocent emigrants tied poverty and persecution in Europe to seek a fairer future across the Atlantic.
This is the picture history of a world that plunged from sailing ship to subinarine. that soared into the skies with the first heavier-than-air machines, that caused panic in the streets with horseless carriages, and amazed its inhabitants with the telephone and telegraph.
From the Crimean War to the Peace of Versailles, from... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In a unique coílection of hundreds of photographs. the first volume of 150 Years of Photo Jounuilism gives a visual record of the years 1850 to 1918. the last and greatest period of European dominance of the world in culture. science and the weapons of destruction.
This is the story of an age when Europe sent traders. soldiers. missionaries and administrators to every continent: when neer-do-wells sought gold in ( alifornia and Ausíralia, when guilty lugitives sailed or steamed to countries raw and ripe for exploitation: and when hundreds of thousands of innocent emigrants tied poverty and persecution in Europe to seek a fairer future across the Atlantic.
This is the picture history of a world that plunged from sailing ship to subinarine. that soared into the skies with the first heavier-than-air machines, that caused panic in the streets with horseless carriages, and amazed its inhabitants with the telephone and telegraph.
From the Crimean War to the Peace of Versailles, from the building of the Eiffel Tower to the sinking of the Titanic, from the crinoline to the one-piece bathing suit, 150 Years of Photo Journalism covers the joys and horrors. the triumphs and disasters, the everyday and the extraordinary of the first slab of history to be comprehensively caught by the camera.
Nick Yapp was a teacher for twenty-seven years before becoming a writer and broadcaster. As well as writing for radio and television, he has written books on subjects that rangé from poetry to problem children. from modern business etiquette to everyday life in the Middle Ages. He is married with three children and lives in south-east London. Vissza