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The Altering Eye : Photographs from the National Gallery of Art by Sarah Kennel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780500544525
- Book Title
- Altering Eye : Photographs from the National Gallery of Art
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Item Length
- 11.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.7 in
- Genre
- Travel, Photography
- Topic
- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, History
- Item Weight
- 107.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 12 in
- Number of Pages
- 380 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500544522
ISBN-13
9780500544525
eBay Product ID (ePID)
210314785
Product Key Features
Book Title
Altering Eye : Photographs from the National Gallery of Art
Number of Pages
380 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, History
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Photography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
107.9 Oz
Item Length
11.5 in
Item Width
12 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-025323
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
This volume, beautifully illustrated by the images in the National Gallery's collection, does a wonderful job of delivering the main contours of photography's history. Entries offer insight into how the medium (its making, subject matter, and look) evolved as photographic technology changed. Highly recommended for helping readers understand [the Gallery's] immense contributions to photography.
Dewey Decimal
770.09753
Synopsis
In 1949 Georgia O'Keeffe chose the National Gallery of Art as the custodian of nearly 1,600 photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, the Key Set as it has become known. With the formation in 1990 of the Gallery's department of photographs under Sarah Greenough, the collection has grown to 14,000 works of art, an assemblage that both charts the development of the medium and reveals the beauty and dynamic versatility of photography over its course of more than 175 years. This elegant book presents some of the most significant and compelling photographs acquired over the years, ranging from experimental photographs made in the earliest years of the medium's history to key works by major twentieth-century figures and contemporary pieces that reset the ways in which photography shapes our experience of the modern world. The guides on this enlightening walk through the history of the medium are members of the extraordinary curatorial team that established the National Gallery's international reputation for photography exhibitions and publications over the past twenty-five years, ever advancing the recognition of photography as a fine art., The Altering Eye marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the National Gallery of Art's photography collection, celebrating the vitality, breadth and history of its holdings. In 1949 Georgia O'Keeffe gave the National Gallery of Art, Washington an extraordinary gift: a collection of more than 1,600 Alfred Stieglitz photographs known as the Key Set, the largest and most complete collection of his work in existence. It was not until 1990, however, that the Gallery actively began collecting photographs. Under the stellar leadership of Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, the Gallery's collection has expanded to nearly 15,000 American and European photographs dating from the invention of the medium in 1839 to the present day. This richly illustrated volume features some of the most significant and compelling photographs the Gallery has acquired over the years and also charts the development of photography throughout its history, revealing the beauty and multifaceted nature of the medium. Following an essay by Sarah Greenough on the changing position of photography within the art museum and the development of the National Gallery's own collection, the book includes four essays by Greenough, Sarah Kennel, Diane Waggoner and Andrea Nelson tracing the evolution of photography over the past 175 years. In addition there are twenty-three shorter essays by Greenough, Kennel, Nelson, and Waggoner, along with Philip Brookman, focusing on some of the medium's most distinguished practitioners, including David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, André Kertész, Ilse Bing, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, Robert Adams and Rineke Dijkstra, among others whose work the National Gallery holds in great depth. In 1948 Georgia O'Keeffe wrote to a friend, 'Stieglitz worked for the recognition of Photography as a Fine Art - The Gallery means something in relation to that.' This volume and its insightful texts by the Gallery's photography curators is testament that indeed it does., This elegant book presents some of the most significant and compelling photographs acquired over the years, ranging from experimental photographs made in the earliest years of the medium's history to key works by major twentieth-century figures and contemporary pieces that reset the ways in which photography shapes our experience of the modern world. The guides on this enlightening walk through the history of the medium are members of the extraordinary curatorial team that established the National Gallery's international reputation for photography exhibitions and publications over the past twenty-five years, ever advancing the recognition of photography as a fine art., A guided tour through the National Gallery of Art's historic photography collection, from early experimental photographs to contemporary pieces
LC Classification Number
TR15.N38 2015
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