From Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce\u2019s 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop pictures to the horror of Nick Ut\u2019s \u201cnapalm girl,\u201d the 50 photographs in this collection have defined eras, made history, or touched something so fundamentally human that they have become resonant icons around the world. Each image goes under the microscope, revealing the history of the medium and its social, historical, and artistic impact.<\/p>\n
Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our collective consciousness, defining eras, making history, or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe. To explore this unique influence, Photo Icons puts some of the most important photographic landmarks under the microscope.<\/p>\n
From some of the earliest photography, such as Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce\u2019s 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre\u2019s famous 1838 street scene, through to Martin Parr, this is as much a history of the medium as a case-by-case analysis of its social, historical, and artistic impact. We take in experimental Surrealist shots of the 1920s and the gritty photorealism of the 1930s, including Dorothea Lange\u2019s Migrant Mother.<\/p>\n
We witness the power-makers (Che Guevara) and the heartbreakers (Marilyn Monroe) as well as the great gamut of human emotions and experiences to which photography bears such vivid witness: from the euphoric Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950) by Doisneau to the horror of Nick Ut\u2019s Napalm Against Civilians showing nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Ph\u00fac running naked toward the camera from South Vietnamese napalm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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