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Visions from America : photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001

Title
Visions from America : photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 / Sylvia Wolf with an essay by Andy Grundberg.
Author
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Publication
  • Munich ; New York : Prestel ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002.
  • ©2002

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Additional Authors
Wolf, Sylvia, 1957-
Description
239 pages, 90 leaves of plates (paginated) : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Summary
"The Whitney Museum of American Art, which possesses the most comprehensive collection of twentieth and twenty-first century American art, has in recent years concentrated on expanding its photography holdings. Drawn from the Whitney's permanent collection, Visions from America offers portraits, landscapes, street-scapes, and genre subjects from both emerging and well-known photographers, including Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Chuck Close, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, William Klein, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerwitz, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Joel Sternfeld, and Garry Winogrand."--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogues.
  • Photography, Artistic.
Note
  • "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001' at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 27-September 22, 2002." -- colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Maxwell L. Anderson -- Preface / Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Sylvia Wolf -- A Medium No More (Or Less): Photography and the Transformation of Contemporary Art / Andy Grundberg.
Call Number
MFW 03-2173
ISBN
  • 3791327879
  • 9783791327877
LCCN
2002007114
OCLC
49773724
Author
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Title
Visions from America : photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 / Sylvia Wolf with an essay by Andy Grundberg.
Publisher
Munich ; New York : Prestel ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002.
Copyright Date
©2002
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Wolf, Sylvia, 1957- writer of introduction.
Other Form:
Online version: Whitney Museum of American Art. Visions from America. Munich ; New York : Prestel ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002 (OCoLC)606826945
Research Call Number
*R-ART TR6.U62 N499 2002
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