Collects a wide range of photographs by influential artists, such as Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Cecil Beaton, and Henri Cartier-Bresson
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This historical survey of art photography presents over 175 reproductions of classic and contemporary photographs, including work by Steichen, Stieglitz, Weston, Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray and Penn. Its stated purpose is the acceptance of photography as fine art, a point about which the photographic community can never seem to say enough. One wonders why insecurity expressed here exists about a collection marked by such talent, sensitivity and imagination. Indeed, Davis's introduction ends on a note of eye-rolling pomposty ("photography is finer than art"). Still, he admirably traces the medium's early development and its earliest polemicists and practitioners.
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- PublisherDutton Adult
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0525241841
- ISBN 13 9780525241843
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages217
- EditorBryan Holme
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