Published to accompany an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 1998, this is a study of the achievements of the early career of the American photographer, Paul Strand (1890-1976). After studying photography in New York with the social reformer Lewis Hine, Strand began to absorb the ideas of the European avant-garde, and fellow-photographer and art entrepreneur Alfred Stieglitz heralded Strand's pictures as the first images of an incisive modern vision.
"This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 10, 2010, to April 10, 2011."
This book presents a rigorously edited selection of these photographs made in France, Italy and New England between the years 1943 and 1953.
This extended portrait captures the essence and complexity of a singular place. This is a true masterpiece of photography.
Picturing America argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making places, determining how we situate ourselves in the world.
It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the non-fiction work of art.
Essays by leading authorities on the artist's work accompany a stunning collection of nearly two hundred photographs by modernist American photographer Charles Sheeler, offering a landmark retrospective of of the work of the influential ...
The volume includes all the significant photographs in the album, compiled by Sir David Brewster, an important early patron of photography.
By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans’s subway portraits.
This is the first book to survey the rich history of food in photography, and the photographers who developed new ways of describing food in pictures.
... vision of a bright new world seemed inappropriate during these Depression years . Nevertheless , his enthusiasm undiminished , he went to Chicago in the fall of 1937 to open a New Bauhaus ( soon renamed the Institute of Design ) . There ...