Main entry:

Gefter, Philip.

Title & Author:

Photography after Frank / essays by Philip Gefter.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Aperture : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], ©2009.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Why MoMA is giving its largest solo photography exhibition ever to Lee Friedlander -- Travels with Walker, Robert, and Andy. On Stephen Shore -- Southern exposures: past and present through the lens of William Christenberry -- John Szarkowski, curator of photography, dies at eighty-one -- Imagist's eye. On Henry Wessel -- Beauty is not a four-letter word. On Richard Misrach -- Tableau inside your town hall. On Paul Shambroom -- Bernd Becher, photographer of German industrial landscape, dies -- Keeping it real: photo-realism -- Portraits of American paradises, mostly lost. On Joel Sternfeld -- Keeping his eye on the horizon (line). On Sze Tsung Leong -- Photographic icons: fact, fiction or metaphor? -- Picnic that never was. On Beate Gutschow -- As unpretty as a picture. On Eric Fischl -- Moments in time, yet somehow in motion. On JoAnn Verburg -- Robert Polidori: in the studio -- Young man with an eye, and friends up a tree. On Ryan McGinley -- Page one: a conversation with Philip Gefter, picture editor of the New York times' front page / by Veronique Vienne -- History's first draft looks much better with pictures -- Reflections of New York's luckiest: Look magazine -- Reading newspaper pictures: a thousand words, and then some -- Cornell Capa, photojournalist and museum founder, dies at ninety -- Defining beauty through Avedon -- Self-portrait as obscure object of desire. On Jack Pierson -- Is that portrait staring at me? On Fiona Tan -- Pantheon of arts and letters in light and shadow. On Irving Penn -- Photographer's lie. On Annie Leibovitz -- Embalming the American dreamer. On Katy Grannan -- What eight-five hundred pictures are worth -- The man who made Mapplethorpe: a film about Sam Wagstaff -- The Avedon eye, trained on faces captured by others -- Photography reveals itself between covers -- Culture in context: photographs in Vince Aletti's magazine collection -- For photography, extreme home makeover -- Theater of the street, the subject of the photograph. On Philip-Lorca diCorcia -- Why photography has supersized itself -- A thousand words? How about $450,000? -- From a studio in Arkansas, a portrait of America. On Mike Disfarmer -- What's new in photography: anything but photos.

Summary:

Presents the author's view of contemporary photography in the United States from the 1950s with the work of Robert Frank to the present day. Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet Frank also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. His subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even "the road" itself-- redefined the icons of America.

ISBN:

9781597110952 (flexibind ; alk. paper)
1597110957 (flexibind ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Frank, Robert, 1924-2019.
Frank, Robert, 1924-
Photography History 20th century.
Photographic criticism.
Photographers Biography.
Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
Critique photographique.
Photographie Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographes Biographies.
Photographers
Photography
Fotograf
Fotografie
Fotografi teori, filosofi.
Fotografi historia 1945-
Fotokonst historia 1945-

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261596
Call No.: BIB 192615
Status: Available