Acting Out(1st Edition) Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography द्वारा John Rohrbach, Erin Pauwels, BrittSalvesen, Fernanda Valverde Hardcover, 232 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2020 द्वारा University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-30668-4, ISBN: 0-520-30668-6
"Cabinet cards were America’s main format for photographic portraiture throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Standardized at 6½ x 4¼ inches, they were just large enough to reveal extensive detail, leading to the incorporation of elaborate poses, backdrops, and props. Inexpensive and sold by the dozen, they transformed getting one’s portrait made from a formal event taken up once or twice in a lifetime into a commonplace ..."
"Examining the power of photography and the workings of perception, this groundbreaking book considers a major American photographic collection and proposes an important new thesis on the interaction of photography and perception. Encompassing works by 700 photographers, the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon collection dates back to the 1840s and the birth of the medium. In this volume Britt Salvesen has selected over 100 works from this massi ..."
"This book traces the rise of the 3D spectacle, from 19th-century stereoscopy to contemporary 3D filmmaking and artworks. This book follows the advancement of 3D photography over the decades, showing how the practice has evolved and, ironically, returned to its most basic form of expression. Pursuing a career-long obsession, author Britt Salvesen explores the origins and impact of the stereoscope, featuring historic images by Jules Dubos ..."
"Since the 1990s, Lockhart has used film and photography to memorialize specific, quotidian moments in particular communities. She discovered Eshkol's groundbreaking work during a 2008 residency in Israel. Eshkol (1924-2007) is best known for developing in the 1950s, with architect Avraham Wachman, the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation system, which uses a combination of symbols and numbers to define the motion of any limb around its join ..."
"This fascinating collection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs contains over 250 striking images — from florals to portraits from nudes to still lifes, as well as images from his controversial X Portfolio “…an indispensable publication of lasting significance…”—ARTFIXdaily “Authoritative and indispensable.”—Bay Area Reporter The legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 –1989) is rich and complicated, triggering controversy, polarizing crit ..."
"Product Description: At the Crossroads of American Photography examines the aesthetic and personal interrelationships of three photographers who helped define the course of American photography after Steiglitz: Frederick Sommer (1905-1999), Harry Callahan (1912-1999) and Aaron Siskind (1903-1991). Although each member of this "holy trinity" (as they were dubbed by photographer and publisher Jonathan Williams) has been honored with indiv ..."
"The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape was one of those rare exhibitions that permanently alters how an art form is perceived. Held at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, in January 1975, it was curated by William Jenkins, who brought together ten contemporary photographers: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Sh ..."
Look at me Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding द्वारा Jed Fielding, BrittSalvesen, Vince =Aletti Hardcover, 144 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2009 द्वारा University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24852-3, ISBN: 0-226-24852-6
"Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, "Look At Me" draws attention to (and distinctions between) the activity of sight and the consciousness of form. Combining aspects of his earlier, acclaimed street work with an innovative approach to port ..."
The Broad Spectrum(1st Edition) Studies in the Materials, Techniques and द्वारा BrittSalvesen, Harriet K. Stratis Hardcover, 264 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Archetype Books ISBN-13: 978-1-873132-57-9, ISBN: 1-873132-57-3
"Colour on paper presents significant treatment challenges and research opportunities for the conservator and conservation scientist. Understanding the use of colored media on paper informs art historical interpretations of works of art and leads to a better appreciation of technique. Recently, a distinguished group of conservators, conservation scientists and art historians came together in Chicago to discuss and debate advances in the ..."
"The personal and professional history of van Gogh and Gauguin—their rivalrous friendship and brief period of collaboration in Arles in 1888—constitutes one of the most dramatically revealing sagas in the history of modern art. In many ways, it is the quintessential story about the beginnings of modern avant-garde practice as it developed in the wake of the last Impressionist exhibition, held in 1886. Gauguin and van Gogh were, by circum ..."
"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America is the first exhibition catalogue to feature the full spectrum of the work of Alec Soth, one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography, whose compelling images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes. Featuring more than 100 of the artist's photographs made over the past 15 years, the book includes new critical essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg, curator and a ..."
"The personal and professional history of Van Gogh and Gauguin constitutes one of the most dramatically revealing sagas in the history of modern art. Over the last few decades Gogh and Gauguin have received a prodigious amount of scholarly attention. Recent contributions to this literature have expanded our knowledge significantly. But while references to their problematic interaction abound, sustained analysis of their mutual influence ..."
"Lors de la préparation de Uncommon Places, Shore a également emporté avec lui un appareil photo 35mm Leica. Contrepoids bienvenu à l’appareil photo grand format lourd et fastidieux qu’il utilisait habituellement, le Leica a permis à Shore de photographier d’une manière instinctive et directe - qualités qui lui ont plu de prime abord dans l’univers photographique dès l’adolescence. Shore a abordé la photographie grand format de la même m ..."
"This compelling exhibition catalog features fifteen international artistswho bring 21st-century urgency to 19th-century principles of virtuethrough work and craftsmanship: Tonico Lemos Auad, Andrea Bowers,Colin Darke, Wim Delvoye, Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel,Fischli and Weiss, Tim Hawkinson, Josiah McElheny, Grayson Perry,Mika Rottenberg, Allison Smith, Ricky Swallow, David Thorpe andJane Wilbraham. The title, adapted from Longfell ..."
"Van Gogh and Gauguin : the studio of the south Art Institute of Chicago,
Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh. Other exhibition-related titles from The Art
Institute of Chicago Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South Douglas W.
Druick and Peter Kort Zegers 432 pages, ... o-86559-194-6 $65.oo hardcover
isbn o-5oo-51o54-7 Copublished with Thames and Hudson Van Gogh The Art
Institute of Chicago: ..."
"W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) revolutionized the photo-essay form with the works he published in "Life" magazine between 1948 and 1956. This monograph reproduces images from six classic sequences: "Country Doctor," which portrays the selfless and sometimes frustrating work of a doctor in rural America; "Spanish Village," the most powerful photographic study of 1950s Spain; "Nurse Midwife," which examines the life of a black woman in the A ..."
"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America is the first exhibition catalogue to feature the full spectrum of the work of Alec Soth, one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography, whose compelling images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes. Featuring more than 100 of the artist's photographs made over the past 15 years, the book includes new critical essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg, curator and a ..."