The camera has witnessed human history, arts, and home life since the mid-19th century. In more than a thousand photographs, captioned in English, German, and French, this enormous volume presents the world's battlefields, workshops, palaces, concert halls, streets, forests, and hovels, spanning the Crimean War and the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Here are the rise of such feats of engineering as the Forth Bridge in Scotland, and the last days of ancient cultures in China, America, and Africa; Olga Korbut preparing for her Olympic bid, and children in Monrovia carrying firearms; Mata Hari performing her "Dance of the Seven Veils," and a young Nelson Mandela before his imprisonment in 1964.
Format:
800 p., 230x310 mm, hardback
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