Photography at MoMA. 1840 -- 1920 / edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Hermanson Meister.

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Photography at MoMA. 1840 to 1920 is the final volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in The Museum of Modern Art's collection. Illustrated with over 400 reproductions, the book charts the photographic medium from early examp...

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Corporate Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Issuing body, Host institution)
Other Authors: Bajac, Quentin (Editor, Writer of added commentary)
Gallun, Lucy (Editor, Writer of added commentary)
Marcoci, Roxana (Editor, Writer of added commentary)
Meister, Sarah Hermanson (Editor, Writer of added commentary)
Lowry, Glenn D. (writer of foreword.)
Batchen, Geoffrey (Writer of added commentary)
Frizot, Michel (Writer of added commentary)
Rice, Shelley (Writer of added commentary)
Yochelson, Bonnie (Writer of added commentary)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2017]
Subjects:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) > Photograph collections.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography > History > 19th century.
Photography > History > 20th century.
Photograph collections > New York (State) > New York.
Physical Description:375 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm
Variant Title:
Photography at MoMA.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry
  • "Background material" : nineteenth-century photography at MoMA / Quentin Bajac
  • The pencil of nature: Great Britain. Entirely modern : early British photography / Geoffrey Batchen
  • Early photography in France. "The black clothing of things" : French photography under the Second Empire / Quentin Bajac
  • Armchair travelers: around the world. Far away, so close : photography in the age of colonial expansion / Roxana Marcoci
  • The new frontier: exploring America. Impressions of America / Lucy Gallun
  • American vernacular. Not necessarily art : nineteenth-century American photographs / Sarah Hermanson Meister
  • European applied photography. Photographic rigor and truth : the document / Michel Frizot
  • Pursuing the ideal: the artist and the amateur. Expectations of meaning (or, The house that Alfred built) / Shelley Rice
  • Pictorialism into modernism. Becoming modern / Bonnie Yochelson.