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Creative Photography, Studio Vista / Reinhold, 1969

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‘”The illiterate of the future’, wrote Laszlo Moholy-Nagy before the last war, “will be the person who cannot photograph’; and indeed today much of this illiteracy has vanished. This book traces the evolution of photography as an art, showing its history as a succession of prohibitions which each generation establishes and the next rescinds. Examples of unorthodox photographic work are illustrated, as the author believes that much may be learned from aesthetic misbehaviour.’

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  • Format: Book
  • Year: 1969
  • Client/Publisher: Studio Vista London / Reinhold Publishing Corporation
  • Size: 165mm x 195mm

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Creative Photography, Studio Vista / Reinhold, 1969
Creative Photography, Studio Vista / Reinhold, 1969
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