Images du XXe siècle Séries

Note that this book is trilingual with all text written in English, German and French. The Hulton Getty Picture Collection Decades of the 20th Century Dekaden des 20.Jahrhunderts Décennies du XXe siècle The Jazz Age, Silent films and strident music. Outrageous fashions and inventions. Revolutions in transport, economic chaos and the first chill winds of Fascism and the Depression - in hundreds of moving and shattering images. Das Zeitalter des Jazz, Stummfilme und schrille Misik. Extravagante Mode und geniale Erfdungen. Die Revolution des Transportwesens, Wirtschaftschaos und die ersten Vorboten des Feschismus und der Großen Depression - in Hunderten von bewegender und erschütternden Aufnahmen. L'âge du jazz. Des films muets et une musique stridente. Une mode extravagante et des inventions farflues. La révolution des transportes, le chaos économique et les premiers signes inquiétants du fascisme et de la crise économique - des centaines de photographies émouvantes et bouleversantes.

Book by Nick Yapp

This series depicts the events of the twentieth century in a novel way. Fascinating black-and-white photographs from the Getty Images collection put images of the power of an event or the zaniness of new trends right before the viewers' eyes. The force of wars and political conflicts is just as important a theme in these comprehensive volumes as world-shaking innovations in science and technology. These are accompanied by portraits of great personalities in art, politics, and society. The lives of everyday people with their (at the time) common and not-so-common curiosities also com-prise an extensive part of each book: sailing on roller skates in 1929, painted-on nylon stockings in 1947, or a dry cleaner's where the charge for miniskirts varies according to their length SELLING POINTS: * The most fascinating images of a decade in one volume * Clearly organised according to major themes like Politics, Pop, Art, or Sports * Impressive photographs of famous personalities, events, and trends over the course of a decade * Commentary on each picture (English/German/French) * Introductory texts give an overview of each theme in three languages

Terrorism and violence from Beirut to Belfast, from Cyprus to Soweto, from Munich to Mogadishu. The Ayatollah Khomeini, Tricky Dicky Nixon, General Amin, Pol Pot, - young Michael Jackson and ageing Elvis - explosively revealed by the Camera's silent witness.

This series depicts the events of the twentieth century in a novel way. Fascinating black-and-white photographs from the Getty Images collection put images of the power of an event or the zaniness of new trends right before the viewers' eyes. The force of wars and political conflicts is just as important a theme in these comprehensive volumes as world-shaking innovations in science and technology. These are accompanied by portraits of great personalities in art, politics, and society. The lives of everyday people with their (at the time) common and not-so-common curiosities also com-prise an extensive part of each book: sailing on roller skates in 1929, painted-on nylon stockings in 1947, or a dry cleaner's where the charge for miniskirts varies according to their length