"OBJECT: PHOTO" contains brilliant photographs from the first half
of the twentieth century--the most dynamic and radical period in
the development of modern photography--but it explores them using a
new approach: instead of privileging the content of the images, it
shifts the dialogue to the photographic object--the actual,
physical thing created by a particular artist using particular
techniques at a precise time, surviving into the present with a
unique history. This perspective provides new insight into the
singular nature of each work and the density of references that
each contains while also acknowledging the cultural importance of
photography from the interwar period--as well as the rarity of its
best examples. Recognition of this importance informed The Museum
of Modern Art's acquisition, in 2001, of the 341 modernist
photographs that now constitute the Thomas Walther Collection, each
presented in this volume in special 5 color reproductions and
accompanied by an unprecedented degree of detailed information,
constituting new standards for the field. "OBJECT: PHOTO
"represents the culmination of four years of research by the
Museum's Departments of Photography and Conservation and by more
than two dozen visiting scholars, demonstrating in its varied
voices their remarkable collaborations with the works and with each
other. Essays by historians, curators and conservators consider
such topics as the political and cultural pressures shaping the
formation of the photographic avant-garde in Europe, the reception
of modernist photography at the time and in subsequent revivals of
interest in it, the intellectual backgrounds that were then
generating new histories of photography, the standards and
rationale for material analysis of photographs and the physical
qualities of the photographs in the Walther collection as evidence
of the development of photographic materials during the period.
Thematic object-based case studies demonstrate new multidimensional
approaches to the photograph as a cultural and artistic object in
its own right.
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