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Title: Century by Bruce Bernard ISBN: 0-7148-3848-9 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Classic, Even if Incomplete
Comment: This is an amazing book. It is the kind of thing you could indifferently buy for a coffee table, and then find a houseful of people surrounding it until the wee hours. The pictures are nothing short of breathtaking. It is the kind of thing that makes your heart beat faster. And it is an excellent learing tool, too, because no one is aware of every situation chronicled in this book. Don't just browse through it in bookstores (even though it's everywhere); buy it and treasure it. It surely will not disappoint.
This book should be the first document of human progress in the twentieth century put into any prospective time capsules for the new millennium, which, as one reviewer rightly stated, doen't actually start until NEXT year. But hey, at least out of ignorance, we get a work of art this precious a year early!
Rating: 5
Summary: the 20th century in pictures
Comment: the scope of the book and its presntation make it earn a 5 rating. one could always argue the editing of a book of this size. there is plenty here to look at and learn about. sometimes when looking at a familiar event--you might wonder why the editor chose a particular photo over one most promimently used before but that might be the reason why this book is a added addition to ones library
Rating: 4
Summary: A nice addition to any collection...
Comment: The photography in this book is very provocative. And there is sooo much, so unless you are satisfied just flipping through a book before leaving it for dead, you can count on working on this book for awhile! Yes, a lot of it focuses on war, but unfortunately, wars have become the significant milestones of the past 100+ years of history. It is still very exciting to get to see so much "up close and personal" thanks to the photographers who took the time to take the shots!
My only complaint about the book is that I found some of the captions to be excessively slanted, politically. Obviously captions are necessary to explain what we are seeing, but I felt that some of them they were also saturated in judgement that was simply not called for, even for a photojournalism book. Not quite enough to be obnoxious, but enough for me to give it 4 instead of 5 stars.
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Title: LIFE : Our Century in Pictures by Richard B. Stolley, Tony Chiu ISBN: 0821226339 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 07 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: 100 Photographs That Changed the World by Editors of Life Magazine ISBN: 1931933847 Publisher: Life Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Photo Book by Editors of Phaidon Press ISBN: 0714836346 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Life Millennium: The 100 Most Important Events and People of the Past 1000 Years by Robert Friedman, the Editors of Life, Life Magazine Editors ISBN: 082122557X Publisher: Bulfinch Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: LIFE: Century of Change: America in Pictures 1900-2000 by Richard B. Stolley ISBN: 0821226975 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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