Object:Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949
Quentin (Ed) Bajac
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Description for Object:Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AGC; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 314 x 246 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2780.
OBJECT:PHOTO 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. A 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 endeavor ... Read more
OBJECT:PHOTO 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. A 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 endeavor ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780870709418
SKU
V9780870709418
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