The Mind’s Eye – Henri Cartier-Bresson
From Amazon: Henri Cartier-Bresson’s writings on photography and photographers have been published sporadically over the past 45 years. His essays―several of which have never before been translated into English―are collected here for the first time. The Mind’s Eye features Cartier-Bresson’s famous text on “the decisive moment” as well as his observations on Moscow, Cuba and China […]
Read MoreStreet Photography Now – Sophie Howarth & Stephen McLaren
From Amazon The definitive anthology of contemporary street photography across the globe Get up close and personal with the world’s best street photographers as they capture the drama of everyday life at 1/125 of a second. Rub shoulders with high-rollers, street vendors and dog walkers. Prowl sidewalks and back alleys, encountering comic absurdities, small […]
Read MorePhotoshow- Landmark Exhibitions – Alessandra Mauro
From Amazon: From photography’s earliest days, the thrill and immediacy of the new medium were defined at the first public exhibitions. Half art, half science, photography captured the attention of everyone from eager technophiles to curious painters: the art of representation was about to change. This is the first book to study the history of photography […]
Read MorePhotography Today – Mark Durden
From Amazon: A lively and accessible survey of photography as art since the 1960s, exploring how, in the hands of some of the world’s greatest photographic artists, it has developed into a respected and versatile artistic med
Read MorePhotography Changes Everything – Marvin Heiferman
From Amazon: Photography Changes Everythingdrawn from the online Smithsonian Photography Initiative offers a provocative rethinking of photography’s impact on our culture and our lives. It is a reader-friendly exploration of the many ways photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world. At this transitional moment […]
Read MoreNew Documents, 1967 – Sarah Hermanson Meister
From Amazon: In 1967, The Museum of Modern Art presented New Documents, a landmark exhibition organized by John Szarkowski that brought together a selection of works by three photographers whose individual achievements signalled the artistic potential for the medium in the 1960s and beyond: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. Though largely unknown at the […]
Read MoreThe Photographers Eye – John Szarkowski
From Amazon: The Photographer’s Eye, available again after some years out of print, offers a guide to the medium’s visual language through works by such early masters as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Strand and Weston. In this re-issue, 172 illustrations reveal the extraordinary range of the photograph from the early days of the medium’s development to the […]
Read MoreMirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 – John Szarkowski
Whe whole book is available on the MOMA web site here: https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_2347_300062558.pdf NOTES: The following handwritten notes are from my MFA research notebook. This book was one of my favourite sources. The handwriting is almost illegible and the spelling worse!
Read MoreLooking at Photographs – John Szarkowski
From Amazon: ‘This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple delectation’, wrote curator John Szarkowski in this first survey of The Museum of Modern Art’s photography collection. Since 1930, when the Museum accessioned its first photograph, it has assembled an extraordinary and wide-ranging collection of pictures for […]
Read MoreInverted Odysseys – Shelley Rice
From Amazon: An “odyssey” through historical, theoretical, critical, and literary perspectives on the three artists. Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman were born in different countries, in different generations; Cahun in France in 1894, Deren in Russia in 1917, and Sherman in the United States in 1954. Yet they share a deeply theatrical obsession that […]
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