Photography Today

Photography Today, 2014, by Mark Durden, London: Phaidon. ISBN: 978-0-7148-4563-0.

This is an illustrated book examining the work of contemporary photographic artists from the 1960s to present day. The book is divided into subjects covering: The Copy: Authorship and Reproduction, The Face: The Pose and the Mask, Colour: Surface and Depth, The Street: Discord and Harmony, Landscape: Nature, Culture and Power, History: Witnessing Atrocity, The Body: Ideal and Real, Documentary: Engagement and Exploitation, Self: Looking In and Acting Out, Constructions; Signs, Fantasy, and Tableau Form, Photography Tomorrow. Artists, in alphabetical order, from the work of Hans Aarsman to Kohei Yoshiyuki. A good reference book.