The history of photography has been told many times, but never before through the incomparable collection of photographs at The Museum of Modern Art. As the second volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works MoMA’s collection, this publication charts the medium during the height of the modernist period, from 1920 to 1960. The Museum’s significant role in the development of photography, and its complicity in the construction of a canon that championed photography as an art form (but also eclipsed certain alternative or unfamiliar practices) requires a reconsidered history for the 21st century. This book offers a fresh lens through which to appreciate works of exceptional significance, surprise and influence, encouraging creative new readings. The book begins with an in-depth introduction followed by seven chapters of fullcolor plates, each introduced by a short essay. Masterworks by such photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson appear alongside lesser-known gems, and diverse notions of modernism enrich classic interpretations, so that the beautiful fictions and messy realties of photography are complicated, refreshed, and, above all, enjoyed.
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Quentin Bajac is The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Lucy Gallun is Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.
Roxana Marcoci is Senior Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.
Sarah Hermanson Meister is Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, visual artist and designer.
The history of photography has been told many times, but never before through the incomparable collection of photographs at The Museum of Modern Art. As the second volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works MoMA’s collection, this publication charts the medium during the height of the modernist period, from 1920 to 1960. The Museum’s significant role in the development of photography, and its complicity in the construction of a canon that championed photography as an art form (but also eclipsed certain alternative or unfamiliar practices) requires a reconsidered history for the 21st century. This book offers a fresh lens through which to appreciate works of exceptional significance, surprise and influence, encouraging creative new readings. The book begins with an in-depth introduction followed by seven chapters of fullcolor plates, each introduced by a short essay. Masterworks by such photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson appear alongside lesser-known gems, and diverse notions of modernism enrich classic interpretations, so that the beautiful fictions and messy realties of photography are complicated, refreshed, and, above all, enjoyed.
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Modern photography at MoMA / Quentin Bajac -- American modernism, 1920-1940. Experience with reality / Quentin Bajac -- The new photographer, 1920-1940. The new photographer : propositions for the future / Roxana Marcoci -- Surrealism and the everyday, 1920-1940. Photography between reality and dream / Pepper Stetler -- America and the documentary style, 1930-1950. "This new spirit of realism" / Drew Sawyer -- Public stories, 1920-1960. The best of life / Douglas Coupland -- The studio and the snapshot, 1920-1960. Control and chaos and points between / Kevin Moore -- Subjective experiments, 1940-1960. A subjective eye : the postwar photographer's vision / Lucy Gallun -- Creative photography, 1940-1960. Modern at midcentury / Sarah Hermanson Meister. 415 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. N° de réf. du vendeur 011855
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