Research Catalog
Photography at MoMA.
- Title
- Photography at MoMA. 1840 -- 1920 / edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Hermanson Meister.
- Author
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.
- Publication
- New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2017]
- New York, New York : distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK / D.A.P.
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- Description
- 375 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 32 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Photography at MoMA. 1840 to 1920
- Subject
- Note
- "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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- "Background material" : nineteenth-century photography at MoMA / Quentin Bajac -- The pencil of nature: Great Britain. Entirely modern : early British photography / Geoffrey Batchen -- Early photography in France. "The black clothing of things" : French photography under the Second Empire / Quentin Bajac -- Armchair travelers: around the world. Far away, so close : photography in the age of colonial expansion / Roxana Marcoci -- The new frontier: exploring America. Impressions of America / Lucy Gallun -- American vernacular. Not necessarily art : nineteenth-century American photographs / Sarah Hermanson Meister -- European applied photography. Photographic rigor and truth : the document / Michel Frizot -- Pursuing the ideal: the artist and the amateur. Expectations of meaning (or, The house that Alfred built) / Shelley Rice -- Pictorialism into modernism. Becoming modern / Bonnie Yochelson.
- Call Number
- JQG 17-1259
- ISBN
- 9781633450288
- 1633450287
- LCCN
- 2017944510
- OCLC
- 975488036
- Author
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.
- Title
- Photography at MoMA. 1840 -- 1920 / edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Hermanson Meister.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2017]
- Distributor
- New York, New York : distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK / D.A.P.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Bajac, Quentin, editor, writer of added commentary.Gallun, Lucy, editor, writer of added commentary.Marcoci, Roxana, editor, writer of added commentary.Meister, Sarah Hermanson, editor, writer of added commentary.Lowry, Glenn D., writer of foreword.Batchen, Geoffrey, writer of added commentary.Frizot, Michel, writer of added commentary.Rice, Shelley, writer of added commentary.Yochelson, Bonnie, writer of added commentary.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 17-1259