Following on the heels of the highly successful Isms: Understanding
Art, Isms: Understanding Architecture, and the latest volume in the
series Isms: Understanding Modern Art comes this handy small-format
guide to the history of photography. Loaded with reproductions of
seminal works and rounded out with a glossary and index of names, this
guide is the best and most concise single volume introduction for
students and beginners
An engaging and informative guide to all the significant isms - schools
and movements-- that have shaped photography from the earliest
daguerreotypes through the 20th century and into the present.