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This book offers a discovery: for the first time a comprehensive monograph explores the entire oeuvre of photographic artist Jan Groover (1943-2012), whose personal collection in 2017 was transferred to Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Musée de l'Elysée in autumn 2019 and generously illustrated, Jan Groover, Photographer: Laboratory of Forms traces the artist's career from the beginnings in America to her late years in western France. Having started her career as a painter, when she turned to photography in the 1970s she developed a distinct artistic attitude that saw her amalgamate the disciplines of photography and painting. She was especially known for her carefully composed photographic still-lifes. Essays on her life and work, her significance as an artist, alongside a very personal contribution by her husband, French artist and critic Bruce Boice, complement the images.
Bill Brandt was the preeminent British photographer of the
twentieth century, a founding father of photography's modernist
tradition whose half-century-long career defies neat
categorization. This publication presents the photographer's entire
oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of English life
in the 1930s and his innovative late nudes. The Museum of Modern
Art has been exhibiting and collecting Brandt's photographs since
the late 1940s, and has recently more than doubled its collection
of vintage prints of his work, which forms the core of this
selection. An essay by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Curator in the
Department of Photography at MoMA, sets the artist's life and work
in the context of twentieth-century photographic history. With rich
duotone illustrations that highlight the special characteristics of
Brandt's prints, this volume is an invaluable resource to students
and scholars alike. Lee Ann Daffner, the Museum's Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Conservator of Photographs, contributes an illustrated
glossary of Brandt's retouching techniques, enhancing the
appreciation of Brandt's printing processes. The book also includes
a generously illustrated appendix of Brandt's published
photo-stories during the Second World War.
Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) coined the term “sentimental geography” to describe a unique artistic approach in which the ordinary was worthy of scrutiny. In March 1975, on a visit to New York, the esteemed art historian Arturo Carlo Quintavalle hand delivered a unique representation of Ghirri’s work to John Szarkowski, director of MoMA’s Department of Photography at the time. Among the items Quintavalle donated to the Museum on behalf of the artist was a handbound album of 111 photographs from the early 1970s titled Paesaggi di cartone, or Cardboard Landscapes. The volume was then deposited in the departmental collection, where it remained, out of sight, for nearly four decades. Of his dozens of publications (many of them issued by the art press he ran with his wife), nearly all are now out of print, and few have been translated into English. Now this luxe facsimile edition makes Ghirri’s singular, all but unknown presentation album available to the public for the first time―at a moment of increasing recognition of Ghirri’s significance in the history of photography.
Hurry Up and Wait, the second volume in a new series of collaborations between artist Maira Kalman, author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is a whimsical collection of images that capture people in motion - or not. In snapshots by the likes of Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Dorothea Lange, Garry Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans, some people stride forth, dash across streets, race on bicycles, and jump over puddles, while others form snaking lines, daydream on park benches, and linger on sidewalks with friends. So what's the rush? With 11 new vibrant illustrations by Kalman inspired by photographs in MoMA's collection, and thought-provoking prose by Handler that ponder the merits of action, Hurry Up and Wait is a spirited reflection on the daily rhythms of life.
Published to accompany the first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of German-born Grete Stern and Argentinean Horacio Coppola, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires explores the individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two of the foremost practitioners of avantgarde photography in Europe and Latin America. The book traces their artistic development from the early 1930s, when the two met in Berlin at the Bauhaus, through the mid-1950s, by which time they had firmly established the foundations of modern photography in Buenos Aires. While twentieth-century photography has a fair number of important teams, Stern and Coppola are unique in that they managed to share their avant-garde ambition while maintaining their autographic styles and individual practices. The couple effectively imported the lessons of the Bauhaus to Latin America, and revolutionized the practice of art and commercial photography on both sides of the Atlantic by introducing such innovative techniques as photomontage, embodied in Stern's protofeminist works for the women's journal Idilio, and through Coppola's experimental films and groundbreaking images for the photographic survey Buenos Aires 1936. Featuring a selection of newly translated original texts by Stern and Coppola, and essays by curators Roxana Marcoci and Sarah Meister and scholar Jodi Roberts, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires is the first publication in English to examine the critical intersections that defined the notable careers of these two influential artists.
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