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Synopsis
The photography that Americans invented in the 1960s and ’70s was as fresh and vital as their music. Photographers of those years believed in their medium’s unlimited capacities of expression. Between the publication of Robert Frank’s The Americans (1958) and the coming of post-modernism, the photographers featured in this book embarked on their own personal quests. Whether they roamed the world, like Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, or sought out its dark corners, like Larry Clark and Nan Goldin, they shared a fierce devotion to their medium and its unique qualities.
The generation that created this work knew it was remarkable. Today, with Gilles Mora as a guide, we can look back on it with even greater appreciation, since we know that these were indeed the last photographic heroes. Also includes work by Joel Meyerowitz, William Eggleston, and many others.
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Gilles Mora is a curator and scholar of modern American art. He is the coauthor of Abrams’ FSA: The American Vision as well as celebrated monographs on Walker Evans, Edward Weston, W. Eugene Smith, and Charles Sheeler.
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- PublisherAbrams Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0810993740
- ISBN 13 9780810993747
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A wide ranging examination of a highly productive era of American photography. Features text by Gilles Mora. Includes color and black and white images by the likes of Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Danny Lyon, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Emmet Gowin, Duane Michals, Robert Heinecken, Mike Mandel, Bill Owens, Robert Adams, Lewi Baltz, Henry Wessel Jr., Joe Deal, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Joel Meyerowitz, and numerous others. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 197670
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Hardcover. English Language Edition. Orange and color-photo-illustrated DJ with white, yellow and black lettering; grey boards with orange lettering; 191 pp.; richly illustrated. The photography that Americans invented in the sixties and seventies was as innovative, bold, and vital as their music. In the wild years between the publication of Robert Frank's landmark The Americans in 1958 and the discovery of the postmodernist Cindy Sherman in the early 1980s, the photographers featured in this book embarked on their own personal quests for an independent and unique photographic language that would redefine the scope and content of documentary photography as well as the expressive potential of the photographic image. Real heroes of a challenging, dynamic modernity, they believed in a medium with endless possibilities and devoted themselves, with an abundance of creative energy, to reinvigorating it in a wide range of inventive ways. GIlles Mora introduces us to the work of these heroic photographers, and to the curators, gallery owners, critics, and collectors who facilitated their rise in the art world and the marketplace. Members of an authentic artistic community, inspired by the legacy of Walker Evans, they include major figures such as Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Les Krims, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, BIll Owens, Robert Adams, Henry Wessel Jr., William Eggleston, and Joel Meyerowitz, along with the gallery owner Lee D. Witkin and the great MoMA curator John Szarkowski. This generation of photographers knew it was remarkable. Today, with Giles Mora as a guide, we can look back on it with greater appreciation. The Last Photographic Heroes offers a personal perspective on this lively and engaging chapter in modern photography, presenting not only a critique but also a veritable visual anthology of major photographic works and artists. -- DJ. Good+ (DJ and boards have some light edgewear; textblock has one single black ink dot at the top that does carry into corresponding pages at the top, about 1mm or less; interior is in excellent condition.). Seller Inventory # 200474
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