In the 1960s and 1970s, photography in America reached a peak of invention and achievement. Freed from the constraints of modernist limits, photographers such as Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore and Sherrie Levine pushed the envelope of visual expression in critical ways. In the first major survey of this unique period, "American Photography" documents these important developments in the visual arts and recaptures the experimental spirit of this exciting ...
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In the 1960s and 1970s, photography in America reached a peak of invention and achievement. Freed from the constraints of modernist limits, photographers such as Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore and Sherrie Levine pushed the envelope of visual expression in critical ways. In the first major survey of this unique period, "American Photography" documents these important developments in the visual arts and recaptures the experimental spirit of this exciting time.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0810993740. Translated from the French by Nicholas Elliott. Color and black and white photographs throughout. First printing. Bumped at the base of the spine, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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Fine in very good(+) jacket. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. 191 pages, 4to, gray boards, d.w.; dust wrapper a little bumped at head of spine. New York: Abrams, (2007). First edition. A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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Good+ (DJ and boards have some light edgewear; textblock has one single black ink dot at the top that does carry into corresponding pages at the top, about 1mm or less; interior is in excellent condition. ) Orange and color-photo-illustrated DJ with white, yellow and black lettering; grey boards with orange lettering; 191 pp.; richly illustrated. The photography that Americans invented in the sixties and seventies was as innovative, bold, and vital as their music. In the wild years between the publication of Robert Frank's landmark The Americans in 1958 and the discovery of the postmodernist Cindy Sherman in the early 1980s, the photographers featured in this book embarked on their own personal quests for an independent and unique photographic language that would redefine the scope and content of documentary photography as well as the expressive potential of the photographic image. Real heroes of a challenging, dynamic modernity, they believed in a medium with endless possibilities and devoted themselves, with an abundance of creative energy, to reinvigorating it in a wide range of inventive ways. GIlles Mora introduces us to the work of these heroic photographers, and to the curators, gallery owners, critics, and collectors who facilitated their rise in the art world and the marketplace. Members of an authentic artistic community, inspired by the legacy of Walker Evans, they include major figures such as Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Les Krims, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, BIll Owens, Robert Adams, Henry Wessel Jr., William Eggleston, and Joel Meyerowitz, along with the gallery owner Lee D. Witkin and the great MoMA curator John Szarkowski. This generation of photographers knew it was remarkable. Today, with Giles Mora as a guide, we can look back on it with greater appreciation. The Last Photographic Heroes offers a personal perspective on this lively and engaging chapter in modern photography, presenting not only a critique but also a veritable visual anthology of major photographic works and artists. --DJ.
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New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 191 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color. Audience: General/trade.