Photography as Fine Art - Hardcover

Bryan Holme

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500540934 ISBN 13: 9780500540930

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (September 19, 1983), 1983

Synopsis

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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Language Notes:

Text: English, Japanese (translation)

From Publishers Weekly:

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.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (September 19, 1983)
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0500540934
• ISBN 13: 9780500540930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224