Since its invention more than a century and a half ago, photography has become an important vehicle for communication and expression. Whether made for personal, commercial, or artistic purposes--and these categories are not mutually exclusive--photographic images surround us. Nevertheless, as the works in this volume demonstrate, photographs maintain their capacity to stir our imagination by their beauty, their strangeness, their apparent objectivity, and their exceptional power to evoke a time, or a place, or a mood. ...
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Since its invention more than a century and a half ago, photography has become an important vehicle for communication and expression. Whether made for personal, commercial, or artistic purposes--and these categories are not mutually exclusive--photographic images surround us. Nevertheless, as the works in this volume demonstrate, photographs maintain their capacity to stir our imagination by their beauty, their strangeness, their apparent objectivity, and their exceptional power to evoke a time, or a place, or a mood. Selected from a museum collection that surveys the history of the medium, The ENduring Illusion: Photographs from the Stanford University Museum of Art celebrates the ingenuity of artists who, by manipulating a technical device and a chemical process, create wonderful, varied, and compelling objects. One hundred photographs, selected form a collection of over 3,000 challenge the viewer to consider the different strategies photographers employ to transform into art what is seen through the lens. An effort has been made to include alongside well-known images many intriguing, but less familiar works.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Near Fine. Paperback, 1996, quarto, 95pp., illustrated in b&w and color. Book near fine with mild wear to corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ. Exhibition catalog.
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Very Good-with No dust jacket as issued. 0937031062. Library labels on the spine and rear. Light rubbing and toning. International shipping billed at cost.; Ex-Library; 4to 11"-13" tall; 95 pages.
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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Museum of Art, [1996]
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English
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14789601509
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4to. [ca 95 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Covers. Printed pictorial paper wraps. Pages fine. B&W photographic plates throughout. Since its invention more than a century and a half ago, photography has become an important vehicle for communication and expression. Whether made for personal, commercial, or artistic purposes--and these categories are not mutually exclusive--photographic images surround us. Nevertheless, as the works in this volume demonstrate, photographs maintain their capacity to stir our imagination by their beauty, their strangeness, their apparent objectivity, and their exceptional power to evoke a time, or a place, or a mood. Selected from a museum collection that surveys the history of the medium, The ENduring Illusion: Photographs from the Stanford University Museum of Art celebrates the ingenuity of artists who, by manipulating a technical device and a chemical process, create wonderful, varied, and compelling objects.
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New. 0937031062. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--96 pp. With 100 ills. (8 col. ). 28 x 22 cm. --with a bonus offer--