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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 392 pgs / 375 color.

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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960

Edited with text by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Hermanson Meister. Text by Douglas Coupland, Kevin Moore, Drew Sawyer, Pepper Stetler.

Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960

An epic dive into modernist photography by the museum that helped shape its history

The history of photography has been told many times, but never before through the incomparable collection of photographs at The Museum of Modern Art. As the second volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works from MoMA’s collection, this publication charts the medium during the height of the modernist period, from 1920 to 1960.

Only one other volume--Looking at Photographs, published in 1973--highlights the photographic treasures of MoMA’s collection; neither Beaumont Newhall’s classic History of Photography nor John Szarkowski’s Photography Until Now used the Museum collection as a springboard to approach photography’s distinctive history. The Museum’s significant role in the development of this history, and in the construction of a canon that championed photography as an art form (but also eclipsed certain alternative or unfamiliar practices) requires a reconsidered history for the 21st century. This publication offers a fresh critical lens through which to appreciate works of exceptional significance, surprise and influence, encouraging creative new readings.

The book begins with an in-depth introduction followed by eight chapters of full-color plates, each introduced by a short essay. Masterworks by photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray and Aleksander Rodchenko appear alongside lesser-known gems, and diverse notions of modernism enrich classic interpretations, so that the beautiful fictions and messy realities of photography are complicated, refreshed and, above all, enjoyed.


Quentin Bajac is The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Lucy Gallun is Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.

Roxana Marcoci is Senior Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.

Sarah Hermanson Meister is Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, visual artist and designer.

"Penny Picture Display, Savannah," (1936) by Walker Evans is reproduced from Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960.

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Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960

Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960

Tina Modotti's "Mella’s Typewriter" (1928) is reproduced from Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960. Featuring 375 stellar reproductions of Modernist photographs from the Museum's collection—from Ansel Adams to Garry Winogrand—this is the second of three outstanding volumes that together will present a complete history of the art of photography. Also available is the first volume in the series, Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now, spanning Diane Arbus to Cindy Sherman. continue to blog


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