Various Authors, Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960

Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960

Various Authors

Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Year
2016
ISBN
9781633450134
Specifications
Hardcover
392 pages
375 illustrations
Edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Hermanson Meister
Text by Douglas Coupland, Kevin Moore, Drew Sawyer, Pepper Stetler
Series: Photography at MoMA, volume 2 of 3

Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960 charts the explosive development of the medium during the height of the modernist period. As photography evolved from a tool of documentation and identification into one of tremendous variety, its rapport with the visible world was transformed, as seen in Walker Evans's documentary style, Dora Maar's Surrealist exercises, El Lissitzky's photomontages, August Sander's unflinching objectivity, the iconic news images published in the New York Times, Man Ray's darkroom experiments, and Tina Modotti's socio-artistic approach. In eight thematic chapters, this book presents more than two hundred artists, including Berenice Abbott, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Geraldo de Barros, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Claude Cahun, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roy DeCarava, Robert Frank, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alfred Stieglitz, Otto Steinert, and James Van Der Zee. This is the second volume in the three-volume Photography at MoMA series, which draws upon the exceptional depth of the Museum's collection to tell a new history of photography.

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