Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand: Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Daniel, Malcolm
From Quinto Bookshop, London, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since February 28, 2020
From Quinto Bookshop, London, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since February 28, 2020
About this Item
First edition. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand", from 10 November 2010 to 10 April 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Hardback in transparent plastic dust jacket with title to upper panel. A little bumped to corners. Dust jacket with one closed tear along tail of front fold and very slight loss to head of spine. *** Stunning catalogue on three important early photographers and innovators. With 135 illustrations, 126 colorplates and 9 duotones. Includes two foldouts. Seller Inventory # 001834
Bibliographic Details
Title: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand: Masterworks ...
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), Edward Steichen (1879–1973), and Paul Strand (1890–1976) are among the most famous photographers of the 20th century. This handsome volume showcases for the first time the Metropolitan Museum’s extraordinarily rich holdings of works by these diverse and groundbreaking masters.
A passionate advocate for photography and modern art promoted through his “Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession” (also known as “291”) and his journal Camera Work, Stieglitz was also a photographer of supreme accomplishment. Featured works by Stieglitz include portraits, landscapes, city views, and cloud studies, along with photographs from his composite portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe (selected by O’Keeffe herself for the Museum). Steichen—perhaps best known as a fashion photographer, celebrity portraitist, and MoMA curator—was Stieglitz’s man in Paris, gallery collaborator, and most talented exemplar of Photo-Secessionist photography. His three large variant prints of The Flatiron and his moonlit photographs of Rodin’s Balzac are highlighted here. Marking a pivotal moment in the course of photography, the final double issue of Camera Work (1915–17) was devoted to the young Paul Strand, whose photographs from 1915 and 1916 treated three principal themes—movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits—and pioneered a shift from the soft-focus Pictorialist aesthetic to the straight approach and graphic power of an emerging modernism. Represented are Strand’s rare large platinum prints—most of them unique exhibition prints of images popularly known only as Camera Work photogravures.
The rarely exhibited photographs gathered in Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand are among the crown jewels of the Metropolitan’s collection.
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