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Wolf, Sylvia (Editor); Grundberg, Andy & Gonzalez-Falla, Sondra Gilman (Contributors).
VISIONS FROM AMERICA: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART 1940-2001.
Munich, Germany:
Prestel/Whitney Museum Of American Art,
2002.
Hardcover.
First Edition/First Printing.
240 pages.
As New/As New.
Exhibition monograph. The single finest book on the Whitney Museum of American Art's photography collection. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. A handsome production by Prestel: Oversize-volume format. Deep blue cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors. Essays by Sylvia Wolf, Andy Grundberg, and Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Munich, Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held by the Museum from June 27 through September 22, 2002. Presents a comprehensive overview of the Whitney Museum's now-substantial Permanent Collection of photographic prints, whose emphasis is on four major late-modern periods: The gritty street photography of the 1950's, the experimental and counter-experimental 1960's-1970's, the "post-modern" 1980's, and the "global" 1990's through the Present, when American photography became profoundly and unabashedly cosmopolitan, assimilating every foreign influence and successfully giving it a distinctly American substance and inflection. The objective of the exhibition is very simple and as such, quite insightful and fascinating: To show how (and why) photography became the explosive and vital center of artistic innovation in American art within a very short period of time. "Demonstrates photography's capacity for personal expression, for telling stories, and for documenting facts that makes it a medium of eloquence, relevance, and lasting power. Offers portraits, landscapes, streetscapes, 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 Meyerowitz, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Joel Sternfeld, and Garry Winogrand" (Publisher's blurb). The Whitney Museum of American Art now owns the most important collection of 20th- and 21st-century American art. In recent years, it has gradually and deliberately shifted its focus towards American photography, especially at its most experimental and cutting-edge, the artistic impulse for change and innovation that has always been the museum's strength as one of America's most ambitious repositories of its own art. A "must-have" title for photography collectors. This title has been out-of-print for a long time. This is one of very few copies still available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. 134 duotone, 84 color plates. Some of the greatest American photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries. A flawless copy. . ISBN 3791327879. $30.00 |
