Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000
Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Prestel ISBN: 3791327879 ISBN-13: 9783791327877 Released: 01 Jun 2002 RRP: £30.00 Average Rating:
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Camera contrasts- By: Robin Benson, 25 May 2008 An interesting book that sees photography as a much more creative experimental art rather than a collection of factual images. The 176 page portfolio section of the book starts with a Robert Frank work from 1952 followed by Lisette Model, Weegee, Helen Levitt, Saul Leiter, Andreas Feininger & so on. Included are 158 artists with a photo each but as the following years are covered the images get much more personal & subjective.
In the front of the book Andy Grundberg contributes a short essay detailing the changes in photography from the fifties & from the Whitney's point of view the interesting change (and increasingly so) was loss of distinction between photographers work & artists who took photographs. The museum, rightly I think, collects work that displays innovation whatever the photo medium, which now includes video & digital imagery. New technology will increasingly blur the edges of traditional brush art & photography.
The book's production is rather conservative in design but the portfolio section works well with each photo having generous margins. The matt art paper supports the 250 screen the images are printed in. Because of the very creative & personal nature of so many of the works I think the book might achieve an interesting stature in the future.
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