Inc Getty Images Bücher

Railways-a British invention-arrived only a decade or so before the camera-another British invention-and have been captured in photographs ever since. Taken from the Getty Images photographic archive, the hundreds of captioned black and white photos here illustrate the story of railroads from the early Victorian days of broad gauge and top-hat engine funnels, through the heyday of steam in the late 19th century, the impact of 20-century wars, to the advent of diesel and electric engines. The book offers spectacular line-side images of powerful engines at work-often in dramatic landscapes-station scenes, urban lines, locomotive works, and rail disasters. The text is in English, German, and French.

"Recueil de photographies issues des archives de la collection d'Hulton Getty, qui présentent l'actualité des années 90 dans le monde : les conflits, les tensions d'avant-millénaire, les divertissements, les arts, la mode, le sport, etc.

This series depicts worldwide events of the twentieth century in a novel way. Fascinating black-and-white photographs from the Getty Images collection put images of the power of an event or the zaniness of new trends right before the viewers eyes. The force of wars and political conflicts is just as important a theme in these comprehensive volumes as world-shaking innovations in science and technology. These are accompanied by portraits of great personalities in art, politics, and society. The lives of everyday people with their (at the time) common and not-so-common curiosities also comprise an extensive part of each sailing on roller skates in 1929, painted-on nylon stockings in 1947, or a dry cleaner's where the charge for miniskirts varies according to their length.

From the glamour of the 30s to the extremes of the 80s, this volume offers an impressive pictorial overview of the fashion world of the entire twentieth century.