Photography at Moma: 1840 to 1920 Tapa dura - 2017

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Photography at MoMA: 1840 to 1920 is the final volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in The Museum of Modern Art's collection. Illustrated with over 400 reprodu

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Contents: Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- "Background material" : nineteenth-century photography at MoMA / Quentin Bajac -- The pencil of nature: Great Britain. Entirely modern : early British photography / Geoffrey Batchen -- Early photography in France. "The black clothing of things" : French photography under the Second Empire / Quentin Bajac -- Armchair travelers: around the world. Far away, so close : photography in the age of colonial expansion / Roxana Marcoci -- The new frontier: exploring America. Impressions of America / Lucy Gallun -- American vernacular. Not necessarily art : nineteenth-century American photographs / Sarah Hermanson Meister -- European applied photography. Photographic rigor and truth : the document / Michel Frizot -- Pursuing the ideal: the artist and the amateur. Expectations of meaning (or, The house that Alfred built) / Shelley Rice -- Pictorialism into modernism. Becoming modern / Bonnie… Leer más