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Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer
Howard Bossen
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Description for Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer
Hardcover. Reintroduces the work of Luke Swank - a modernist photographer, who had been relegated to virtual anonymity after his untimely death in 1944. Both a biography and an analysis of his work, this book focuses on his contribution to the modernist movement and the art of photography. His images share stylistic similarities with many of the modernists. Num Pages: 248 pages, 141 plates, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 267 x 279 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1719.
Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer reintroduces the work of an important artist who had been relegated to virtual anonymity after his untimely death in 1944. As both a biography of Swank (1890-1944) and an analysis of his work, the book focuses on his essential contribution to the modernist movement and positions Swank alongside contemporaries Edward Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. In 1930, at age forty, Luke Swank was selling cars in his hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Just two years later, his five-part photo mural “Steel Plant” was featured in ... Read more
Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer reintroduces the work of an important artist who had been relegated to virtual anonymity after his untimely death in 1944. As both a biography of Swank (1890-1944) and an analysis of his work, the book focuses on his essential contribution to the modernist movement and positions Swank alongside contemporaries Edward Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. In 1930, at age forty, Luke Swank was selling cars in his hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Just two years later, his five-part photo mural “Steel Plant” was featured in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822942535
SKU
V9780822942535
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About Howard Bossen
Howard Bossen is a professor of journalism and an adjunct curator at the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University. He is guest curator of the Carnegie Museum of Art exhibit Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer. Bossen is also the author of Henry
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