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Visions from America : photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 / Sylvia Wolf ; with an essay by Andy Grundberg ; preface by Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla.

Title
Visions from America : photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 / Sylvia Wolf ; with an essay by Andy Grundberg ; preface by Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla.
Author
Whitney Museum of American Art
Publication
Munich ; New York : Prestel ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Wolf, Sylvia, 1957-
  • Grundberg, Andy
Description
239 p. : ill. (some col.); 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.
Alternative Title
Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001
Subject
  • Whitney Museum of American Art > Photograph collections > Exhibitions
  • Photography > United States > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  • Photograph collections > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Photography, Artistic.
  • v – Exhibition catalogs.
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."-- T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
3791327879
LCCN
^^2002007114
OCLC
  • 49773724
  • SCSB-11464740
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library