1001 Photographs: You Must See Before You Die Paperback – Big Book, 4 October 2018

Really impressed by this book. It has one of those titles that begs comparison with audio collections like ‘Now that’s what I call Music’ but is, in fact, a true History book. At first I was just determined to turn every page and look at the pictures (the word ‘photograph’ is preferred to ‘image’) but found myself unfurling the twentieth century in my hands. Poverty. Wealth. War. Ignorance.Many photographs are unknown photographers but I also got a taste of names I’d seen but not experienced, Man Ray one example. The text by each photograph is far more than desultory. The photographs sometimes are documents of real events and sometimes made by the photographer, a deliberate construction like mine uploaded.Plenty to inspire me, yes, but as a narrative of these image-ridden times I would suggest 1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die is a book second to none.I saw a copy on Waterstones bookshelf but it looked well-leafed. I got mine Amazon Warehouse ‘Like New’ for fifteen quid. Spot one if you can.

A good book, but marred by a glaring omission. It does not have the famous “Tank man” photo symbolic of defiance in Tianmen square. Set me wondering,and sure enough the book has been printed in China! A strange case of the printers censoring the editors/publishers.

Pensaba que cada foto iria explicada con todos los pasos hasta la toma; no.Són fotos y algun comentario; de referència, pero no para aprender. És decir, las fotos las puedes ver por internet i el libro no me parece interesante. Mi opinión.

It's a bit of a tome. Very thick as you'd expect with 1,000 images in it. Great descriptions.

Whilst this is a very interesting book, in terms of the 1001 photographs I was a bit disappointed to find that very few are full page and most are at best 1/3 or 1/2 page and many are even smaller. That said the arrangement in chronological order does make for very interesting discoveries. And, of course a book of full page photograph reproductions would be far more expensive than this book! So this is not the book for closely studying photographs but one rather to enjoy exploring the history of photography with a good sample of important photographs.