{"title":"Lee Ann Daffner","description":"\u003cp\u003eLee Ann Daffner explores the intersection of photography and objecthood, inviting readers to reconsider the ways we engage with images as tangible artefacts. Her work delves into the cultural and artistic significance of photographs beyond their visual content, offering thoughtful insights into the medium’s evolving role within contemporary arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOBJECT: PHOTO\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies her approach, presenting photography not just as a means of representation but as a physical object with its own history and presence. Readers interested in visual culture and the materiality of art will find her writings both stimulating and richly reflective.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"object-photo-by-mitra-abbaspour-9780870709418","title":"OBJECT: PHOTO","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOBJECT: PHOTO\u003c\/em\u003e shifts the dialogue about modernist photography from an emphasis on the subject and the image to the actual photographic object, created by a certain artist at a particular time and present today in its unique physicality. This shift is especially significant for a study of the period during which photography developed a distinctive formal language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA growing awareness of the rarity of images made between the two world wars has altered historians' considerations, encouraging new approaches privileging the originality of each work and the density of references each contains. This richly illustrated publication culminates a four-year collaborative research endeavour between The Museum of Modern Art's Departments of Photography and Conservation, and nearly 30 visiting scholars, on the material and aesthetic evolution of avant-garde photography in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 341 modernist photographs known as The Thomas Walther Collection, a major museum acquisition made in 2001, is presented in its entirety, establishing a new standard of depth for the medium. Essays by curators, researchers, and conservators consider the history of collecting from this era to the present and how deepening knowledge has shifted the perspective on the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey explore the material facts of the Walther pictures as a baseline for understanding the development of photographic materials in this era and how the intellectual formation of the writers of critical photographic publications of the era and the societal and cultural pressures of that historical moment inflected the photography's sense of its own history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether with thematic, object-based case studies of groups of pictures that demonstrate new approaches in specific, divergent examples, these contributions reanimate the dialogue on this formative era in photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597367394540,"sku":"9780870709418","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780870709418-object-photo.jpg?v=1777950735"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lee-ann-daffner.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}