The Last Photographic Heroes American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies
- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; English Language Ed edition (19 Nov. 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0810993740
- ISBN-13: 978-0810993747
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 2.5 x 31.1 cm
In the 1960s and 1970s, photography in America reached a peak of invention and achievement. Freed from the constraints of modernist limits, photographers such as Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore and Sherrie Levine pushed the envelope of visual expression in critical ways. In the first major survey of this unique period, "American Photography" documents these important developments in the visual arts and recaptures the experimental spirit of this exciting time
In the 1960s and 1970s, photography in America reached a peak of invention and achievement. Freed from the constraints of modernist limits, photographers such as Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore and Sherrie Levine pushed the envelope of visual expression in critical ways. In the first major survey of this unique period, "American Photography" documents these important developments in the visual arts and recaptures the experimental spirit of this exciting time.
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The Last Photographic Heroes In the 1960s and 1970s, photography in America reached a peak of invention and achievement. A major survey of this unique period, this book documents these important developments in the visual arts and recaptures the experimental spirit of this exciting time.
From The family of man (1955) to Robert Frank. William Gedney ; Don Donaghy -- Transformations of the photographic document. Metaphors. Harry Callahan ; Aaron Siskind --The documentary style : from the social landscape to the snapshot aesthetic. Danny Lyon -- Photography of the Moment. Lee Friedlander ; Garry Winogrand ; Tod Papageorge ; Charles Harbutt ; Charles H. Traub -- Subjective reality -- Documentary photography and marginality. Emmet Gowin -- The dream world of Ralph Eugene Meatyard -- The directorial mode. Les Krims ; Duane Michals ; Arthur Tress -- Experimental and conceptual photography. Robert Heinecken ; John Pfahl ; David Levinthal -- American photography of the seventies : the making of heroes. The John Szarkowski galaxy -- The photography market : the rise of the gallery -- Institutions, education, and criticism. Mike Mandel -- Publications and the photography book ; Ralph Gibson -- The landscape in focus. The lure of the environmental -- Bill Owens and suburbia ; Bill Owens -- The new topographics. Nicholas Nixon ; Robert Adams ; Henry Wessel Jr. ; Lewis Baltz ; Joe Deal -- Color and photography : the American luminists. William Eggleston ; William Christenberry ; Stephen Shore ; Joel Meyerowitz.