Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope [Hardcover] Bernard, Bruce

A visual chronicle of the twentieth century, compiled by photo editor Bruce Bernard for Phaidon. This isn't a textbook — it's 400 pages of iconic and obscure photographs that capture a hundred years of humanity at its best and absolute worst. War, famine, revolution, triumph, intimacy, absurdity. Each image is contextualized but never over-explained. Bernard lets the photographs speak: a shell-shocked soldier in the Somme, Marilyn Monroe between takes, anonymous faces in bread lines and liberation parades. The sequencing is masterful — moments of horror sit alongside unexpected beauty, reminding you that history isn't a single narrative but a collision of millions. For anyone who thinks in images, or wants to understand the last century beyond headlines. Heavy book, heavy subject, worth the weight.