Life Library of Photography. Photography Year 1978

Time-Life Books, 1978. — 248 p. — (Life Library of Photography)The Life Library of Photography series consists of 17 volumes. The books cover all the main aspects of photography: technology and equipment; shooting methods; film processing and photo printing; history of photography; photography as an art form.A nostalgic interest in old photographs and old ways of making new photographs were two aspects of the same trend that dominated photography in 1977. In Italy, a broad
panorama of 19th and early-20th Century art and life was re-created in an exhibition of
works by a family of Florentine photographers. The Art Deco art and advertising
photographs of Paul Outerbridge were rediscovered, and Americans got an opportunity
to see an exhibition of pre-World War I European masterpieces from the superlative
private collection of Parisian bookstore proprietor Andre Jammes.A taste for the past was also evident on the collecting scene During 1977 more and more collectors discovered the delights and the rewards of old photographic postcards, which are increasingly recognized as an important folk art.The outstanding new books included a handsome and nostalgic collection of portraits
by the early-20th Century German, Hugo Erfurth, as well as a new documentary study of firemen at work by the young American Jill Freedman. Young moderns such as Joel Meyerowitz showed pictures made with old-fashioned view cameras, and one of the discoveries of the year was a California teacher who specializes in humorous recreations of old movie stills.