While visiting the Tate Modern in London last month, I bought a copy of a recently published collection of short biographies and accompanying images with the title Masters of Photography – classic photographic artists of our time.
It is well written book with a good layout and paper quality. The author, Reuel Golden, is a former editor of British Journal of Photography who has lectured and published about photojournalism and the history of photography. He now lives and works in New York, as Executive Editor of the monthly Photo District News. This latest work is a compact book containing a pleasantly surprising quantity of short biographies of the photographers, as well as many images that are skillfully described within the context of the particular style or contribution to photography.
The following photographers are included in the contents: Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Eve Arnold, Eugène Atget, Cecil Beaton, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, ALvin Langdon Coburn, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Curtis, Robert Doisneau, Tony Duffy, Elliot Erwitt, Lee Friedlander, Fay Godwin, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Ernst Haas, Bert Hardy, Lewis W. Hine, Horst P Horst, Eric Hosking, Hoyningen-Huene, Eric Hosking, Nadav Kander, Karsh of Ottawa, André Kartész, William Klein, Heinz Kluetmeier, Nick Knight, Dorothea Lange, Frans Lanting, J.H. Lartigue, O.Winston Link, Steve McCurry, Mary Ellen Mark, James Nachtwey, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Martin Parr, Rankin, Eli Reed, Marc Riboud, Herb Ritts, Alexander Rodchenko, George Rodger, Willy Ronis, Sebastiao Salgado, Cindy Sherman, W.Euguene Smith, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Weegee, Madame Yevonde.
[Photomedia Forum post by T.Neugebauer from May 07, 2008]