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PHOTO: Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949

Mitra Abbaspour, Lee Ann Daffner, Maria Morris Hambourg

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Museum of Modern Art
01 March 2015

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Photographs: collections

OBJECT:PHOTO shifts the dialogue about modernist photography from an emphasis on the subject and the image to the actual photographic object, created by a certain artist at a particular time and present today in its unique physicality. This shift is especially significant for a study of the period during which photography developed a distinctive formal language. A growing awareness of the rarity of images made between the two world wars has altered historians' considerations, encouraging new approaches privileging the originality of each work and the density of references each contains. This richly illustrated publication culminates a four-year collaborative research endeavor between The Museum of Modern Art's Departments of Photography and Conservation, and nearly 30 visiting scholars, on the material and aesthetic evolution of avant-garde photography in the early twentieth century. The 341 modernist photographs known as The Thomas Walther Collection, a major museum acquisition made in 2001, is presented in its entirety, establishing a new standard of depth for the medium. Essays by curators, researchers, and conservators consider the history of collecting from this era to the present and how deepening knowledge has shifted the perspective on the medium; the material facts of the Walther pictures as a baseline for understanding the development of photographic materials in this era; and how the intellectual formation of the writers of critical photographic publications of the era and the societal and cultural pressures of that historical moment inflected the photography's sense of its own history. Together with thematic, object-based case studies of groups of pictures that demonstrate new approaches in specific, divergent examples, these contributions reanimate the dialogue on this formative era in photography.

By: Mitra Abbaspour, Lee Ann Daffner, Maria Morris Hambourg
Imprint: Museum of Modern Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 240mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 2.800kg
ISBN: 9780870709418
ISBN 10: 0870709410
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 March 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for OBJECT: PHOTO: Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949

Departing from the conventions of pictorialism, these photographs emphasized sharp focus, straightforward documentation of modern life, and attention to formal qualities through the recognition of the camera as a machanical and techonological tool.These pieces became a focus of a collaboration obetween a group of international photography scholars and MoMA's departments of Photography and Conservation, and four years later their work has culminated in an expansive exhibition presented in the Edward Steichen Photography Galleries. It's accompanied by a hardcover publication, Object Photo: 1909-1949.--Stauffer Tema American Photo (11/01/2014)