Photography at MoMA: 1840 to 1920

by Sarah Meister (Editor), Bonnie Yochelson (Text by), Lucy Gallun (Text by), Roxana Marcoci (Editor), Roxana Marcoci (Text by)

Overview

Photography at MoMA: 1840 to 1920 is the final volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in The Museum of Modern Art’s collection.

Illustrated with over 400 reproductions, the book charts the photographic medium from early examples in the 1840s through its participation in international art movements such as Pictorialism and modernism. An in-depth introduction is followed by eight chapters of full-color plates, each introduced by a short essay, offering a fresh lens through which to appreciate works of exceptional significance, surprise and influence, and encouraging creative new readings. Masterworks by photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Nadar, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Henry Fox Talbot, August Sander, Edward Steichen and Carleton Watkins appear alongside lesser-known gems and vernacular forms of photography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633450288
Publisher:	MoMA
Publication date:	09/26/2017
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	1,068,299
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 12.30(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Quentin Bajac is former Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of Art History, Classics, and Religious Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Michel Frizot is former Professor at the Ècole du Louvre, Paris, and editor of A New History of Photography (1998).

Lucy Gallun is Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Sarah Hermanson Meister is Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of of Modern Art, New York.

Roxana Marcoci is Senior Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Shelley Rice is Arts Professor at New York University.

Bonnie Yochelson is an independent curator and art historian based in New York.