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Photography, modern architecture and design : the Alberto Sartoris collection | objects from the Vitra design museum

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Architect and propagandist of the modern movement, Alberto Sartoris (1901-1998) assembled a remarkable photography collection of modern architecture, published in part in two anthologies that have since achieved mythical stature: «Gli elementi dell'architettura funzionale» and «l'Encyclopédie de l'architecture nouvelle». These photographs document the architectural works around the world, from Le Corbusier to Luis Barragàn, photographed by the best specialists of their period. This work presents the collection that Alberto Sartoris donated to the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. It also throws light on a poorly understood aspect of twentieth century architecture, namely, the mechanisms behind the creation and diffusion of the «image of modern architecture», as well as the determining role played by photography in this process.

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Foto : modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945

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It fired the imagination of hundreds of progressive artists across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary and Poland. It became a symbol of modernity for millions through its use in magazines, newspapers, advertising and books. Published to accompany an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this book presents the work that redefined the very notion of art and embodied at times a dizzying freedom from traditional social roles. Familiar names such as László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Sudek and the Bauhaus are connected to a wealth of individuals and organizations whose influence is being recovered for the first time. The perceptive text explores topics ranging from the avant-garde (surrealism, experimental photography) to popular culture (tabloids, sports, the ‘new woman’) to extremist politics and war. Particular attention is given to photomontage, a technique that epitomized the era and found broad acceptance among artists and mass media outlets.

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American Modern: Documentary photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White

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American Modern explores the reinvention of documentary photography in the 1930s, focusing on the work of three iconic figures. It identifies the points where Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White connected, diverged, and competed, and demonstrates how commercial and governmental commissions, the influence of mass media, the establishment of public institutions of modern art, and international theories of photography all intersected to establish the now-dominant documentary style.

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Modernist photography : selections from the Daniel Cowin collection

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«Modernist photography» re-examines the classic period of 20th-century photography using new critical approaches to consider five recurrent visual themes during the years 1915 to 1945. These themes cut across such stylistic movements as Pictorialism, Surrealism, and the New Vision, and include the transformation of objects, experimental images of the body, visions of the city, the industrialization of the countryside, and experimental directions in poster design and typography. This thematic approach fosters new perspectives on such key photographers as Bernice Abbott, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Raoul Hausmann, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks and Man Ray and emphasizes the interactions between European and American practitioners. The catalogue includes chapters on each of the five themes by ICP Curators Christopher Phillips and Vanessa Rocco. It is based on a selection of 70 works from the Daniel Cowin Collection. The collection of about 1,600 images dates from 1860 to 1960 and includes a range of processes and formats--postcards, stereographs, carte-de-vistes, tintypes, albumen prints, and gelatin silver prints.

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Dreaming in black and white : photography at the Julien Levy gallery

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Julien Levy (1906–1981) was one of the most influential proponents of photography and Surrealism during the second quarter of the twentieth century. In his gallery, which operated from 1931 to 1949, Levy hosted the first New York exhibition devoted to Surrealism and presented early solo exhibitions of many photographers now considered iconic in their field, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Clarence John Laughlin, George Platt Lynes, and Lee Miller. He also developed close relationships with artists Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and Man Ray, among others, and is credited with discovering Joseph Cornell. This book is published to commemorate the centenary of Levy’s birth and to celebrate the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s major acquisition of more than 2,500 photographs from his collection.

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De l'autre côté : photographies, Jeanne Mandello, Hildegard Rosenthal, Grete Stern

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Sous ce titre ''De l'autre côté'' sont rassemblées les oeuvres de trois femmes photographes originaires d'Allemagne et qui, portées par le vent de l'histoire, se sont exilées à la fin des années 1930 en Amérique du Sud. Après avoir suivi une formation photographique en Allemagne, dans le cadre de l'école légendaire du Bauhaus ou au studio de Paul Wolff — dont le nom est étroitement associé à la marque Leica —, elles ont toutes trois commencé d'exercer leur métier à Berlin, Paris et Londres. Puis chacune d'elles a traversé l'Atlantique en direction d'un pays différent pour poursuivre sa carrière : Grete Stern en Argentine, Hildegard Rosenthal au Brésil et Jeanne Mandello en Uruguay. Trois destins qui ont en commun l'exil et le désir de liberté; trois oeuvres qui incarnent les multiples facettes de la photographie de leur époque.