Photography at MoMA: 1840-1920

Name: Photography at MoMA: 1840-1920
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781633450288
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By Roxana Marcoci and Lucy Gallun and Sarah Hermanson Meister

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Photography at MoMA: 1840-1920 presents a comprehensive history of photography as seen through works in the Museum of Modern Art's collection. The book covers photography's development from its invention through key international art movements like Pictorialism and modernism. Featuring over 400 richly illustrated reproductions, it highlights masterworks by Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Nadar, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Henry Fox Talbot, August Sander, Edward Steichen, and Carleton Watkins, alongside lesser-known and vernacular photographic forms. Each of the eight chapters combines full-colour plates with insightful introductory essays, providing fresh perspectives on photography's significance and evolution.
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Ideal for art and photography enthusiasts, historians, and students seeking an authoritative visual and historical guide to early photographic art housed in MoMA’s collection.

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The final volume in a series of books that presents a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in MoMA's collection.

Photography at MoMA: 1860-1920 is the final volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in MoMA's collection. Richly illustrated with over 400 reproductions, the book charts the medium from its invention through its participation in international art movements such as Pictorialism and modernism.

It offers a fresh lens through which to appreciate works of exceptional significance, surprise, and influence, encouraging creative new readings. Beginning with an in-depth introduction, the book includes eight chapters of full-colour plates, each introduced by a short essay.

Masterworks by photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Nadar, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Henry Fox Talbot, August Sander, Edward Steichen and Carleton Watkins appear alongside lesser-known gems and vernacular forms of photography.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633450288

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 September 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: Illustrated in colour and duotone throughout

Contributors:

Edited by Quentin Bajac

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 2660g

Pages: 376

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Arts & Culture Lucy Gallun Non-Fiction Roxana Marcoci Sarah Hermanson Meister

About the Author

Quentin Bajac is The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art.

Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci and Sarah Hermanson Meister all work in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art.

Geoffrey Batchen is a Professor of Art History and Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Michel Frizot is the Emeritus Research Director at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

Shelley Rice is a Professor of Art History at New York University.

Bonnie Yochelson is an independent curator and art historian based in New York.