Icons of culture

Discusses social and technical trends and changes in photography over time, with short biographies on influential photographers from portraiture, fashion, photojournalism, landscape, documentary, and photographic art, including Diane Arbus, David Bailey, and Ansel Adams, with brief overviews of various aspects of the art form.

Examines the lives and accomplishments of fifty influential fashion designers active from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, and identifies ten major developments in fashion history.