Title & Author:

The art of photography, 1839-1989 / catalogue edited by Mike Weaver ; photographs selected by Daniel Wolf with Mike Weaver and Norman Rosenthal.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1989]
©1989

Description:

x, 472 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 February - 30 April 1989; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 17 June - 27 August 1989; and Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 September - 23 December 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (page 472).
Foreword -- Lender to the exhibition -- Introduction / Daniel Wolf -- Chronology / Anne Hammond -- Prologue : The picture as photograph / Mike Weaver -- The pencil of nature / Beaumont Newhall -- "The magic mirror" (1830) / Henry Fox Talbot -- The nineteenth-century portrait / Will Stapp -- "Annals of my glass house" (1874) / Julia Margaret Cameron -- Early French masters / Ben Lifson -- "Photography in France" (1852) / Roger Fenton -- Le Gray ; Fenton ; Watkins / Mike Weaver -- "The relation between photography and painting" (1860) / Philip Gilbert Hamerton -- Travel / Robert A. Sobieszek -- "The art of photography" (1860) / Francis Frith -- Pictorial effect / Peter C . Bunnell -- "On the possibility of new laws of compositions" (1910) / Sadakichi Hartmann -- "An American place" / Mike Weaver -- "America and photography" (1929) / Edward Weston -- The modern movement / Robert Shapazian -- "A new instrument of vision" (1932) / Lázló Moholy-Nagy -- European documentary styles / Ben Lifson -- "The decisive moment" (1952) / Henri Cartier-Bresson -- American documentary styles / Anne Tucker -- "Photography" / Walker Evans -- The inner vision / Ben Lifson -- Memorable fancies" (1952, 1957) / Minor White -- British contemporaries / Mark Haworth-Booth -- "Ray Moore Talking" (1981) / Ray Moore -- Scenes of conflict / David Mellor -- Slightly out of focus (1947) / Robert Capa -- Figures of style / David Mellor -- "World without men" (1984) / Helmut Newton -- Construction and appropriation / Chris Titterington -- "Photographic practice and theory" (1974) / Victor Burgin.

Summary:

This magnificently illustrated book, which features over 80 colour and 400 black-and-white illustrations, provides a comprehensive introduction to photographic art over the last 150 years. It takes the reader on a historical journey of discovery - through the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, and the major stylistic changes of realism, modernism, documentary, and Post-modernism - to describe with choice examples photography's exciting evolution. This engrossing book, which includes new essays in the field, reprints of historic texts, and a wealth of the world's most famous and best known images, is the catalogue for an exhibition, organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which opened in Houston in February 1989, moved on to the Australian National Gallery, Canberra in June and from there to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in September 1989.

ISBN:

0300044577 (cloth)
9780300044577 (cloth)
0300044569 (U.S. ; pbk.)
9780300044560 (U.S. ; pbk.)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic
Photography History Exhibitions.
Photography, history

Form/genre:

Quick Ref. Collection.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogues.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Weaver, Mike, editor.
Wolf, Daniel, 1955- curator.
Rosenthal, Norman, contributor.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, host institution.
Australian National Gallery, host institution.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), issuing body, host institution.
Yale University Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 47250
Call No.: TR646.G72 (ID:89-B6469)
Copy: c. 1
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available