Unlike any other book you may encounter, the sheer physical presence of CENTURY is unique. With 1,120 pages and 1,072 images, this monster volume offers an informative, nostalgic, intimate and monumental insight into the last 100 years. CENTURY is a history of the twentieth century told in photographs. More than any other, the last century was one of unforeseeable advances, discoveries and victories as well as unanticipated atrocities and suffering, and it was the first century to have been entirely documented by the camera. Thus the chronological sequence of images takes us on a journey through the trenches of the First World War, the virgin flight of the Wright brothers, the rise of unspeakable political regimes, the odyssey into outer space, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Accompanied by extended historical background information for every single scene depicted, CENTURY is as much a historical education as an enlightening visual display of familiar and unknown times.
