The Shape of Things: Photographs from the Robert B. Menschel Collection
This survey explores 60 remarkable photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, all acquired with the support of Robert B. Menschel and meticulously selected for the book by the museum's chief curator of photography, Quentin Bajac. Ranging from the contemporary artist Andreas Gursky to William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the medium's founding figures, these works collectively tell the story of photography from its beginnings, but upend and newly illuminate that story through their arrangement in reverse chronological order. Each image is the subject of a brief, elegant text. The book borrows its title from a work by Carrie Mae Weems, one of the many great photographs that Menschel has contributed to the collection.
Details
Meister Sarah Hermanson (Article author), Bajac Quentin (Article author), Lowry Glenn D. (Preface)
Marville Charles, Frank Robert, Moholy‑Nagy László, Sherman Cindy, Wegman William, Sommer Frederick, Watkins Margaret, Adams Robert, Arbus Diane, Becher Bernd, Becher Hilla, Brandt Bill, Brassaï, Fink Larry, Diamond Hugh Welch, Coburn Alvin Langdon, Coplans John, Cunningham Imogen, Weems Carrie Mae, Jannsen Jules, Jones Charles Harry, Siskind Aaron, List Herbert, Stieglitz Alfred, Sugimoto Hiroshi, Szarkowski John, Weegee, Moholy Lucia, Renger-Patzsch Albert, Klein William, Lê An-My, Marey Etienne-Jules, Cuvelier Eugène, Abbott Berenice, Baldus Édouard‑Denis, Gossage John, Gursky Andreas, Smith Graham, Struth Thomas, Talbot William Henry Fox, Bisson Louis-Auguste, Bisson Auguste-Rosalie, Frères Bisson, Fenton Roger, Avedon Richard, Callahan Harry Morey, Carroll Lewis, Cartier‑Bresson Henri, Fontcuberta Joan, Friedlander Lee, Shore Stephen, Groover Jan, Hervé Lucien, Schenk Charles, Telberg Val, Umbo, Uelsmann Jerry Norman, Menschel Robert B.
New York City
2016
152 pages
9781633450226
Available on request
Yes
Yes
777.51 2016
1
- Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins2018
- The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology2017
- Another objectivity/ Une autre objectivité1989
- Fruit Garden2016
- Дагеротип, автохром, поляроид. 1/12019
- Performing for the Camera2016
- Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th Century Photograph2003
- Один к одному2020
- German Photography 1870-1970: Power of a Medium1997
- Madan Mahatta and Randhir Singh. IIT Delhi: A Modernist Case Study2020
- Источник2024
- What is a Photograph?2013