1980s: Images of the 20th Century

Images of the 20th Century

by Mark Yapp

Decades of the 20th Century. Photographs from the Getty collection. Fascinating photographs put images of the power of an event or the zaniness of new trends right before the viewers' eyes. The force of war and political conflict is just as important a theme as world-shaking innovations in science and technology. These are accompanied by portraits of great personalities in art, politics, and society.

Genres: History, Photography, Nonfiction, Art

400 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2001

Reviews

[Baba]

Photographic retrospective of the 1980, which although featuring a lot of great photography, I feel would have worked a lot with more iconic imagery. In a world of web and digital, maybe the age of photography books is over for the likes of me. The book does have captions under each and every photo, which is nice. 5 out of 12.

2008 and 2010 read

[Madame Jane]

The excess of the 1980s is captured in this.

[Maggie]

Very interesting.

[Bretty Brett]

This is a great book to have if you're at all interested in the 1980s. Being photographic, it lacks the biased representation of facts so prevalent in many other "factual" volumes on this decade. Some major events and fads are missing... but then it was a very eventful decade, so there obviously wasn't space for everything!

[Petra -thinks there is a rat behind the stove]

This series of small, thick bricks of books is entirely photographic. You get the flavour of the times without the waffle!