Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), compiler, issuing body.

Photography at MoMA / edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Hermanson Meister.

New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2015-2017.

3 volumes : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm

Volume 1: "The Museum of Modern Art has one of the greatest collections of twentieth-century photography in the world. As one of three volumes dedicated to a new history of photography published by the Museum, this publication comprises a comprehensive catalogue of the collection post-1960s and brings a much-needed new critical perspective on the most prominent artists who have worked with the photographic medium over the last half-century. At a moment when photography is undergoing fast-paced changes and artists are seeking to redefine its boundaries in new and exciting ways, Photography at MoMA serves as an excellent resource for understanding this expanded field. The book begins with an in-depth introduction followed by eight chapters of full-color plates, each introduced by a short essay. Nearly 250 artists are featured, including Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Jan Dibbets, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Helen Levitt, Sigmar Polke, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall, Carrie Mae Weems, Hannah Wilke, and Garry Winogrand."--Publisher's website.
Volume 2: "Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960 charts the explosive development of the medium during the height of the modernist period. As photography evolved from a tool of documentation and identification into one of tremendous variety, its rapport with the visible world was transformed, as seen in Walker Evans's documentary style, Dora Maar's Surrealist exercises, El Lissitzky's photomontages, August Sander's unflinching objectivity, the iconic news images published in the New York Times, Man Ray's darkroom experiments, and Tina Modotti's socio-artistic approach. In eight thematic chapters, this book presents more than two hundred artists, including Berenice Abbott, Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo, Geraldo de Barros, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Claude Cahun, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roy DeCarava, Robert Frank, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alfred Stieglitz, Otto Steinert, and James Van Der Zee." -- Publisher's website.
Volume 3: "Since the invention of photography, legions of practitioners have mined its artistic and practical potential, paying particular attention to its novel depiction of space and time, its utility as a tool for documentation and exploration, and its distinctive take on modernism and modernity. This volume explores the ways in which this new medium -- photography -- and this new apparatus -- the camera -- evolved during its first century, from the masterworks of William Henry Fox Talbot, one of photography's inventors, to the portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, and Gertrude Käsebier; the motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge; surveys of landscape and architecture by American and European practitioners; the documentary images of Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, and Lewis Hine; and the modernist works of Karl Blossfeldt, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand. This publication provides a wide-ranging look at a medium so thoroughly and instantly modern that it is represented in MoMA's collection by works that predate any of the Museum's paintings or sculptures by a full forty years. And now, more than 175 years later, the modern spirit of early photography remains intact, and Photography at MoMA: 1840 to 1920 provides a record of its contradictions, aspirations, and achievements. This is the final volume in the three-volume Photography at MoMA series, which draws upon the exceptional depth of the Museum's collection to tell a new history of photography."--Publisher website.

9780870709692 (volume 1)
0870709690 (volume 1)
9781633450134 (volume 2)
1633450139 (volume 2)
9781633450288 (volume 3)
1633450287 (volume 3)

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Photograph collections.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Collections de photographies.
The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
Photography, Artistic.
Photography History.
Photograph collections New York (State) New York.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie Histoire.
Collections de photographies New York (État) New York.
art photography.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photography
Photograph collections
Fotografie
Sammlung
New York (State) New York

History

Bajac, Quentin, editor.
Gallun, Lucy, editor.
Marcoci, Roxana, editor.
Meister, Sarah Hermanson, editor.

Photography at the Museum of Modern Art

Location: Library main 290620
Call No.: TR642 .M87 2015
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 293132
Call No.: TR642 .M87 2015
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 297268
Call No.: TR642 .M87 2015
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available