The shape of things : photographs from Robert B. Menschel / Quentin Bajac ; with an essay by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Current owner
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : The Museum of Modern Art [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
152 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm

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    Museum trustee
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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Getty AAT genre
    Summary note
    "This survey explores 60 remarkable photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, all acquired with the support of Robert B. Menschel and meticulously selected for the book by the museum's chief curator of photography, Quentin Bajac. Ranging from the contemporary artist Andreas Gursky to William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the medium's founding figures, these works collectively tell the story of photography from its beginnings, but upend and newly illuminate that story through their arrangement in reverse chronological order. Each image is the subject of a brief, elegant text. The book borrows its title from a work by Carrie Mae Weems, one of the many great photographs that Menschel has contributed to the collection."--Artbook& website (viewed November 14, 2016)
    Notes
    Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held October 29, 2016-May 7, 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-149) and index.
    Contents
    • Print and presentation : trends in collecting and displaying photographs during John Szarkowski's tenure at the Museum of Modern Art / Sarah Hermanson Meister
    • Essays and plates / Quentin Bajac.
    Other title(s)
    Photographs from the Robert B. Menschel collection
    ISBN
    • 9781633450226 ((hardcover))
    • 1633450228 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2016951717
    OCLC
    957546885
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