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The Thrill of the Chase - The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Hardcover)
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The Thrill of the Chase - The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Hardcover)
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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 well as images from obscure sources:
daguerreotypes, cartes-de-visite, and stereographs, plus mug shots,
medical photographs, and works by unknown makers. The latter
category contains some of the most outstanding objects in the
collection, demonstrating Wagstaff's willingness to position
unfamiliar images alongside works by established masters as well as
underrepresented contemporary artists of the time, including Jo Ann
Callis, William Garnett, and Edmund Teske.This book is published to
accompany an eponymous exhibition on view at the J.Paul Getty
Museum from March 15 to July 31, 2016; at the Wadsworth Atheneum in
Hartford, CT, from September 10 to December 11, 2016; and at the
Portland Museum of Art in Portland, ME, from February 1 to April
30, 2017.
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