Screen LibraryPhotography at MoMA. 1840 -- 1920 /
Photography at MoMA. 1840 to 1920 is the final volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in The Museum of Modern Art's collection. Illustrated with over 400 reproductions, the book charts the photographic medium from early...
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Museum of Modern Art,
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| Publisher Address: |
New York, New York : New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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| Summary: |
Photography at MoMA. 1840 to 1920 is the final volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in The Museum of Modern Art's collection. Illustrated with over 400 reproductions, the book charts the photographic medium from early examples in the 1840s through its participation in international art movements such as Pictorialism and modernism. An in-depth introduction is followed by eight chapters of full-color plates, each introduced by a short essay, offering a fresh lens through which to appreciate works of exceptional significance, surprise and influence, and encouraging creative new readings. Masterworks by photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Nadar, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Henry Fox Talbot, August Sander, Edward Steichen and Carleton Watkins appear alongside lesser-known gems and vernacular forms of photography. |
| Item Description: | "Quentin Bajac's essays were translated from the French by Jeanine Herman. Michel Frizot's essay was translated from the French by Sharon Bowman"--page 373. |
| Carrier Form: | 375 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781633450288 1633450287 |
| Index Number: | TR642 |
| CLC: |
J405 J431 |
| Call Number: | J431/P575-2 |
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Foreword / "Background material" : nineteenth-century photography at MoMA / The pencil of nature: Great Britain. Entirely modern : early British photography / Early photography in France. "The black clothing of things" : French photography under the Second Empire / Armchair travelers: around the world. Far away, so close : photography in the age of colonial expansion / The new frontier: exploring America. Impressions of America / American vernacular. Not necessarily art : nineteenth-century American photographs / European applied photography. Photographic rigor and truth : the document / Pursuing the ideal: the artist and the amateur. Expectations of meaning (or, The house that Alfred built) / Pictorialism into modernism. Becoming modern / |