Author: Joanna T. Steichen
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0679450769
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The companion volume to a major retrospective exhibition of Steichen's work at the Whitney Museum of Art presents more than three hundred photographs, spanning seven decades of work, including stunning landscapes, still lifes, cityscapes, fashion photographs, and portraits of friends, family, and celebrities. 17,500 first printing.
Author: Gerd Hurm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100021169X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the exhibition travelled throughout the United States and to forty-six countries, and was seen by over nine million people. Edward Steichen conceived, curated and designed the exhibition. He explained its subject as `the everydayness of life' and `the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world'. The exhibition was a statement against war and the conflicts and divisions that threatened a common future for humanity after 1945. The popular international response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Many critics, however, have dismissed the exhibition as a form of sentimental humanism unable to address the challenges of history, politics and cultural difference.This book revises the critical debate about The Family of Man, challenging in particular the legacy of Roland Barthes's influential account of the exhibition. The expert contributors explore new contexts for understanding Steichen's work and they undertake radically new analyses of the formal dynamics of the exhibition. Also presented are documents about the exhibition never before available in English. Commentaries by critical theorist Max Horkheimer and novelist Wolfgang Koeppen, letters from photographer August Sander, and a poetic sequence on the images by Polish poet Witold Wirpsza enable and encourage new critical reflections. A detailed survey of audience responses in Munich from 1955 allows a rare glimpse of what visitors thought about the exhibition. Today, when armed conflict, environmental catastrophe and economic inequality continue to threaten our future, it seems timely to revisit The Family of Man.
Author: Joel Smith
Publisher: Princeton Univ Department of Art &
ISBN: 9780691048734
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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A stunning visual record of the emergence of Steichen as a great artist which explores the photographer's maturing artistry in the light of contemporary developments in photography, graphic design, and graphic arts. 60 color plates. 25 duotones.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0300169019
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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"This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 10, 2010, to April 10, 2011."
Author: Mark D. Faram
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425221402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Looks at the history of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit and their work during World War II.
Author: Todd Brandow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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By far the most lavish, thoughtfully selected, and beautifully produced book of Steichen s work.
Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307539199
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops, benches, hands, roads, signs—award-winning writer Geoff Dyer seeks to identify their signature styles. In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers—many of whom never met—constantly encounter one another. The result is a kaleidoscopic work of extraordinary originality and insight.
Author: Edward Steichen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jason E. Hill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000211320
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of news pictures in their many forms. For the first time, this volume defines what counts as a news picture, how pictures are selected and distributed, where they are seen and how we critique and value them. Presenting the best new thinking on this fascinating topic, this book considers the news picture over time, from the dawn of the illustrated press in the nineteenth century, through photojournalism’s heyday and the rise of broadcast news and newsreels in the twentieth century and into today’s digital platforms. It examines the many kinds of images: sport, fashion, society, celebrity, war, catastrophe and exoticism; and many mediums, including photography, painting, wood engraving, film and video. Packed with the best research and full colour-illustrations throughout, this book will appeal to students and readers interested in how news and history are key sources of our rich visual culture.
Author: Mark A. Vieira
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762450398
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Book Description
Collects more than four hundred photographs of Hollywood stars captured by George Hurrell, creator of the glamour shot, and looks at the photographer's up and down career.
