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20th century French photography
Author: The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography
Author: Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300264275
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A deep dive into the pioneering collection of nineteenth-century French photographs, equipment, and ephemera, which is a cornerstone of the George Eastman Museum In the early twentieth century, Parisian photographer, amateur historian, and collector Gabriel Cromer (1873-1934) amassed a collection that traced photography's prehistory, invention, and development to about 1890. His dream was to found a national museum of the photographic arts in France. Although Cromer's ambition was never realized, his collection was central to establishing the world's first museum dedicated to photography: the George Eastman Museum. The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth‑Century French Photography considers the origin and circulation of the collection as well as the influence it has had on photography as a field of study. The book's six essays, written by French and American scholars, explore the Cromer Collection's complex passage across markets, borders, and functions. For more than half a century, curators and scholars worldwide have drawn extensively on the Gabriel Cromer Collection for exhibitions and publications; this book provides the first focused scholarly study of the foundational resource.
Making Strange
Author: Kim SichelPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300246188
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A richly illustrated look at some of the most important photobooks of the 20th century France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpouring of brilliantly designed books. Making Strange offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring seminal publications by Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Pierre Jahan, William Klein, and Germaine Krull. Kim Sichel argues that these books both held a mirror to their time and created an unprecedented modernist visual language. Sichel provides an engaging analysis through the lens of materiality, emphasizing the photobook as an object with which the viewer interacts haptically as well as visually. Rich in historical context and beautifully illustrated, Making Strange reasserts the role of French photobooks in the history of modern art.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Author: Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 379138483X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book offers an outstanding retrospective collection of the master of 20th-century photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson's earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asia, the US, and Russia, and even include landscapes from the 1970s, when he retired his camera to pursue drawing. While his instinct for capturing what he called the decisive moment was unparalleled, as a photojournalist Cartier-Bresson was uniquely concerned with the human impact of historic events. In his photographs of the liberation of France from the Nazis, the death of Ghandi, and the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Cartier-Bresson focused on the reactions of the crowds rather than the subjects of the events. And while his portraits of Sartre, Giacometti, Faulkner, Capote, and other artists are iconic, he gave equal attention to those forgotten by history: a dead resistance fighter lying on the bank of the Rhine, children playing alongside the Berlin Wall, and a eunuch in Peking's Imperial Court. Divided into six thematic sections, the book presents the photographs in spare double-page spreads. In a handwritten note included at the end of the book, Cartier-Bresson writes, "In order to give meaning to the world, one must feel involved in what one singles out through the viewfinder." His work shows how he has been able to capture the decisive moment with such extreme humility and profound humanity.
20th Century French Photography
Author: Agnès de Gouvion Saint-CyrPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
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Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Exhibition catalog with 100 full page illustrations and 200 supporting pictures, covers development of contemporary photography in France. Includes critical texts and brief biographies of the photographers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
20th Century Photography
Author: Museum LudwigPublisher: Taschen America Llc
ISBN: 9783822855140
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Yale French Studies, Number 139
Author: Raisa RexerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300257066
Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity and interdisciplinary investigation In its first issue on photography, this volume of Yale French Studies presents multiple avenues of interdisciplinary investigation designed to intersect and open up new areas of inquiry in the twenty-first century. These intersections push beyond traditional geographic and gender boundaries, exploring women's photography, new cultural contexts, trans orientalism, and minority and marginalized bodies. As they do so, they ask us to reconsider the way that we conceive of photography's place in the past and in our lives today.
The Decisive Moment
Author: Henri Cartier-BressonPublisher:
ISBN: 9783869307886
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
One of the most famous books in the history of photography, this volume assembles Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years.
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set
Author: Lynne WarrenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135205361
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 1823
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This Encyclopedia presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography. To bring this history alive for the reader, the set is illustrated in black and white throughout, and each volume contains a color plate section. A useful glossary of terms is also included.
NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHY.
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Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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