Color: American Photography Transformed (William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (734 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292753012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
By accepting color’s flexibility and emotional transcendence, Szarkowski and Eggleston transformed photography, giving the medium equal artistic stature with painting, but also initiating its demise as an independent art.The catalogue of a major exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which holds one of the premier collections of American photography, Color tells, for the first time, the fascinating story of color’s integration into American fine art photography and how its acceptance revolutionized the practice of art. He shows how this absorption of color instigated wide acceptance of a fundamentally new definition of photography, one that blends photography’s documentary foundations with the creative flexibility of painting. Capturing the world in color was one of photography’s greatest aspirations from the very beginnings of the medium. These texts, illuminated by seventy-five ful
A leading curator in the field of fine art photography, Rohrbach is senior curator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. . He coedited the collection of essays Reframing the New Topographics, and his other publications include “Time in New England: Creating a Usable Past,&r
bradtemkin said Important book on color photography. I never tire looking at this book. The plates are the best reproduction I've seen in a long time, and a great selection. This book examines why color did not "take" like black and white early on, and argues how it rose up by focusing on color theory and ideas where black and white photography couldn't. It lent itself to a whole new aesthetic.Rohrbach is thoughtful and convincing in his argument for color, and it's importance. A great book to hav. The History of Color photography. Informative history or color photography. Very much a tome, but not a tomb. Worth buying and reading if you want to know where you are in the history of photography.. "Color:American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum of American Art." according to 12Color:American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Believe it or not, I haven't looked at it yet, it was a Christmas gift to myself. I imagine it to be exciting and beautiful and very educational for someone who loves colour Photography, as I do.. schipperke. Believe it or not, I haven't looked at it yet, it was a Christmas gift to myself. I imagine it to be exciting and beautiful and very educational for someone who loves colour Photography, as I do.
You really get a sense of key players in the field: who had influence, how they exerted it, and what their agenda was (even if the agenda changed over time.) There is even a degree of suspense as the history unfolds." (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Head of the Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)"Rohrbach has uncovered, through interviews and secondary sources, a great deal that has not been stated in print before a superior work." (Arthur Ollman, San Diego State University, Founding Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts) . "This book makes an important contribution to the fields of photohistory and cultural history