Research Catalog

Title

Evelyn Hofer : eyes on the city / Gregory J. Harris, April M. Watson ; with essay by Brandi T. Summers.

Publication

• New York, New York : DelMonico Books-D.A.P. ; Atlanta, Georgia : High Museum of Art, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hofer, Evelyn
• Harris, Gregory J.
• Watson, April M.
• Summers, Brandi Thompson
• High Museum of Art, host institution.
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, host institution.

Description

192 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 cm

Summary

Evelyn Hofer's career spanned five decades. Despite her extraordinary output, she was underrecognized during her lifetime and was notably referred to by New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer as 'the most famous unknown photographer in America.' She made an impact through a series of photobooks, published throughout the 1960s, devoted to European and American cities, including Florence, London, New York, Washington and Dublin, and a book focused on the country of Spain. Comprising more than 100 photographs in both black and white and color, Eyes on the City accompanies the artist's first major museum exhibition in the United States in over 50 years and is organized around her photobooks. The photographs feature landscapes and architectural views combined with portraiture, conveying the unique character and personality of these urban capitals during a period of intense structural, social and economic transformations after World War II.

Alternative Title

Eyes on the city

Subject

• Hofer, Evelyn > Exhibitions
• Hofer, Evelyn
• High Museum of Art > Photograph collections
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art > Photograph collections
• High Museum of Art
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
• 1900-1999
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Photobooks
• Cities and towns > Europe > Pictorial works
• Cities and towns > United States > Pictorial works
• Photograph collections > Georgia > Atlanta
• Photograph collections > Missouri > Kansas City
• Cities and towns
• Manners and customs
• Photography, Artistic
• Photograph collections
• Europe > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works
• United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Europe
• United States
• Georgia > Atlanta
• Missouri > Kansas City

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City, co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, March 24-August 13, 2023; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, September 16, 2023-February 11, 2024"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Directors' foreword / Rand Suffolk, Julián Zugazagoitia -- Curators' acknowledgments / Gregory J. Harris, April M. Watson -- "Slightly stuck with 'what is there'": Evelyn Hofer and photography in the 1960s / Gregory J. Harris -- Getting under the skin of a city: Evelyn Hofer and her literary collaborators / April M. Watson -- Plates -- Picturing the textures of chocolate city / Brandi T. Summers -- Exhibition checklist -- Photography credits -- Selected books by Evelyn Hofer -- Contributors.

Call Number

JQF 24-775

ISBN

• 9781636810973
• 1636810977

OCLC

1371247809

Title

Evelyn Hofer : eyes on the city / Gregory J. Harris, April M. Watson ; with essay by Brandi T. Summers.

Publisher

New York, New York : DelMonico Books-D.A.P. ; Atlanta, Georgia : High Museum of Art, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Hofer, Evelyn, photographer, artist.

Harris, Gregory J., curator, author.

Watson, April M., curator, author.

Summers, Brandi Thompson, contributor.

High Museum of Art, host institution.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-775