Featuring work by Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Avedon,Man Ray, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko and dozens more of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century, this deluxe set is broken into two volumes, each sold separately, that jointly analyze photography as an artistic medium from 1900 to 2000— paying particular attention to the myriad ways that human beings have been portrayed across the years. The first volume collects 114 black-and white images by the leading photographers and avant-garde artists of the era spanning from 1900–1950. The second features 100 more images, also in black-and-white, that span from 1950–2000. Both volumes are edited by the renowned curator and scholar of historical photography, Ute Eskildsen,who has directed the development of the Photographic Department at the Museum Folkwang, Essen since 1979.