One of two launch volumes in an important and highly collectible new photography series by the V&A, here is an introduction to the history of staged photography in over 130 key images from the V&A’s outstanding collection
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'[Marta Weiss's] history of freeze-frame tricks of the eye begins with gelatin-plate fantasies and ends with the emergence of digital techniques that allowed any kind of make-believe'
Observer
'Timely … plays with ideas of truth and fiction to examine the constructed nature of images … the book responds to life in an age of post-truth'
Aesthetica
'Beautiful and informative'
Black & White Photography
Format: PLC (no jacket)
Size: 25.0 x 19.5 cm
Extent: 192 pp
Illustrations: 146
Publication date: 27 September 2018
ISBN: 9780500480373