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The Thrill of the Chase - The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum
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Hardback. With more than 26,000 works, the Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. collection of photographs is the largest single group of artworks in any medium at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
With more than 26,000 works, the Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. collection of photographs is the largest single group of artworks in any medium at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Wagstaff (1921-1987) amassed his extraordinary collection between 1973 and 1984, recognizing early that photography was an undervalued art form on which he might have a profound impact as a collector. He was mainly attracted to photographs that stimulated his imagination, and his taste ran toward the idiosyncratic-images that surprised him chiefly because he had never seen them before.In choosing the 147 works reproduced in this volume, Paul Martineau selected masterpieces as ... Read more
With more than 26,000 works, the Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. collection of photographs is the largest single group of artworks in any medium at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Wagstaff (1921-1987) amassed his extraordinary collection between 1973 and 1984, recognizing early that photography was an undervalued art form on which he might have a profound impact as a collector. He was mainly attracted to photographs that stimulated his imagination, and his taste ran toward the idiosyncratic-images that surprised him chiefly because he had never seen them before.In choosing the 147 works reproduced in this volume, Paul Martineau selected masterpieces as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1799g
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606064672
SKU
V9781606064672
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About . Martineau
Paul Martineau is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where Weston Naef is curator emeritus. Eugenia Parry is a former professor of the histories of art and photography at Wellesley College.
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