Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album /anglais - Couverture rigide

Sarah, Hermanson Meis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1633450813 ISBN 13 : 9781633450813

Editeur : Museum of Modern Art, 2019

Synopsis

Frances Benjamin Johnston The Hampton Album, 9781633450813

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Comprised of 159 extraordinary platinum plates, Frances Benjamin Johnston’s Hampton Album documents life at the Hampton Institute marking a pivotal moment in this historically black university’s history .

Frances Benjamin Johnston (American, 1864–1952), one of the first women in America to work as a professional photographer, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a thirty year old institution dedicated to the practical and academic education of freed slaves and Native Americans. What became known as the Hampton Album – comprised of 159 platinum plates exhibited in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris – is Johnston’s signature work, and has become a touchstone for contemporary historians and artists. The leather-bound album was discovered serendipitously by Lincoln Kirstein in a Washington, D.C. bookstore during World War II and donated to MoMA in 1965.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Museum of Modern Art
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1633450813
• ISBN 13: 9781633450813
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Frago Srl; http://www.moma.it; ; Via Assisi, 15; Montecosaro; 62010; Italie