Art and Photography: covers every major school, style and name and includes work by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky and Gillian Wearing... (Themes & Movements)

I do recommend this book to everyone interested in contemporary photography art. It contains only most prominent classic examples, and makes you love it. I can compare the choice of body of work with Charlotte Cotton's book, and this one wins hands down.

Excellent volume with a comprehensive and clearly written essay at the beginning.

I have several of these 'Themes & Movements' books from Phaidon, as a student I found the collection of texts missing from this edition useful and interesting. Maybe the photography book never had the documentation the Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Arte Povera and Feminism ones did ... which would explain why it is so much cheaper. as a large format paperback the reporductions are easily clear enough to demonstrate the point of the photographs and the captions have worthwhile content, though the description of Jeff Wall's 'The Destroyed Room' fails to mention the allusions highlighted in the current 'Seduced by Art' exhibition at the National Gallery.Useful to stimulate interest and identify works and photographers

Bought this for university to finish my degree with

A good summary of late 20th.Century photography with a good essay. Condensed version of the Hardback.

Excellent book.

Very good

Better to buy the first edition that has all the really useful essays