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Inside the Photograph

Writings on Twentieth-Century Photography
Series: Aperture Ideas
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Inside the Photograph presents a definitive collection of Peter C. Bunnell's essays, exploring the evolution and significance of photography as an art form. Across 34 insightful essays, Bunnell examines predominantly American photographers and key galleries central to the modern photography movement. His distinctive analysis reveals overlooked facets of photographic works while situating them within their historical and cultural contexts. This volume reflects Bunnell's unique perspective on the transformation of art photography from a niche practice to a global phenomenon.
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Ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of photography and art history seeking a deep, authoritative understanding of modern photography's development and critical discourse.

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A collection of texts selected from work published throughout the author's career marks his significant contribution to the photography field he has helped to establish. Encouraging the reader to see previously overlooked aspects of the images, it provides a historical context for the photographers and their work.

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Now available in paperback! Peter C. Bunnell has been a major force in shaping the discourse about photography. During his 30-some years as an influential professor and curator at Princeton University, he has written extensively. This classic collection of texts, available for the first time in paperback and selected from work published throughout his career, makes a significant contribution to the field that he has helped to establish.

In each of the 34 essays, which are devoted to individual (predominantly American) photographers and three galleries that played a key role in the recognition and marketing of Modern photography, Bunnell brings to bear his distinctive sensibility and insight. While encouraging the reader to see previously overlooked aspects of the images he discusses so eloquently, he also provides an invaluable historical context for the photographers and their work.

In Inside the Photograph, Bunnell offers a unique personal perspective on the world of art photography as it has morphed from a small group of practitioners to the supercharged international marketplace of today.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597111041

Publisher: Aperture

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 July 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Aperture

Illustration: Illustrated in black and white throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Peter C. Bunnell is the McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art Emeritus at Princeton University and faculty curator of photography emeritus at the Princeton University Art Museum, where he was also responsible for the Minor White Archive. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology (where he rst studied with Minor White), he holds graduate degrees from Ohio University and Yale University. Prior to coming to Princeton in 1972, Bunnell was curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has written reviews and commentary for Afterimage, Aperture, Art in America, Camera, Creative Camera, the New Republic, Print Collector's Newsletter, and Untitled, among other publications. He is the author of the monograph Minor White: The Eye That Shapes (1989) and he edited Photography at Princeton (1998). Bunnell has published two anthologies of his essays: Degrees of Guidance (1993) and Inside the Photograph (2006). He edited two anthologies of writings: A Photographic Vision: Pictorial Photography, 18891923 (1980) and Edward Weston on Photography (1983), and was coeditor of two major reprint series, The Literature of Photography and Sources of Modern Photography. Bunnell has taught at New York University, Dartmouth College, and Yale University, and has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad. The former national chairman of the Society for Photographic Education, he was also chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Photography. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

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