Visions from America : photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 / Sylvia Wolf with an essay by Andy Grundberg.

Main entry:

Whitney Museum of American Art.

Title & Author:

Visions from America : photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 / Sylvia Wolf with an essay by Andy Grundberg.

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 27-Sept. 22, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Maxwell L. Anderson -- Preface / Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Sylvia Wolf -- A Medium No More (Or Less): Photography and the Transformation of Contemporary Art / Andy Grundberg.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The Whitney Museum of American Art, which possesses the most comprehensive collection of twentieth and twenty-first century American art, has in recent years concentrated on expanding its photography holdings. Drawn from the Whitney's permanent collection, Visions from America offers portraits, landscapes, street-scapes, and genre subjects from both emerging and well-known photographers, including Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Chuck Close, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, William Klein, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerwitz, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Joel Sternfeld, and Garry Winogrand."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

3791327879 (paperback)
9783791327877 (paperback)

Subject:

Whitney Museum of American Art Photograph collections.
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Photography United States.
Photography, Artistic.
Photograph collections New York (State) New York.
Photographie artistique.
Collections de photographies New York (État) New York.
art photography.
Photograph collections.
Photography.
Fotografie.
New York (State) New York.
United States.

Form/genre:

Photography, Artistic.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Wolf, Sylvia, 1957-
Grundberg, Andy
Whitney Museum of American Art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225096
Call No.: TR6.U62 N499 2002
Status: Available

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