Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-Century Photography - Hardcover

Bunnell, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597110213 ISBN 13: 9781597110211

Publisher: Aperture, 2006

Synopsis

Over some 30 years as a professor and curator at Princeton University, Peter C. Bunnell has been a profoundly influential force in conversations about photography's past and present. He has written extensively--articles, books, catalogue essays--and this up-to-date collection of texts from throughout his career supersedes the beloved out-of-print Degrees of Guidance, which collected his work through the early 1980s. Most of these 34 essays are devoted to individual photographers, predominantly American, with the balance written about three key galleries that played crucial early roles in the medium's recognition and marketing. Over the years, Bunnell has sustained deep and mutually respectful relationships with photographers ranging from Minor White to Ruth Bernhard, Aaron Siskind and Jerry Uelsmann. His unsurpassed understanding of their work as well as that of contemporary masters makes his an enlightening view of a field that has undergone extraordinary changes under his watch. Inside the Photograph offers a unique personal perspective on the world of art photography during its shift from a small group of practitioners collected by an even smaller group of devotees to a supercharged international marketplace. Includes writings on Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Eikoh Hosoe, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and others.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter C. Bunnell is the McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art Emeritus at Princeton University and faculty curator of photography emeritus at the Princeton University Art Museum, where he was also responsible for the Minor White Archive. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology (where he first studied with Minor White), he holds graduate degrees from Ohio University and Yale University. Prior to coming to Princeton in 1972, Bunnell was curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has written reviews and commentary for Afterimage, Aperture, Art in America, Camera, Creative Camera, the New Republic, Print Collector’s Newsletter, and Untitled, among other publications. He is the author of the monograph Minor White: The Eye That Shapes (1989) and he edited Photography at Princeton (1998). Bunnell has published two anthologies of his essays: Degrees of Guidance (1993) and Inside the Photograph (2006). He edited two anthologies of writings: A Photographic Vision: Pictorial Photography, 1889–1923 (1980) and Edward Weston on Photography (1983), and was coeditor of two major reprint series, The Literature of Photography and Sources of Modern Photography. Bunnell has taught at New York University, Dartmouth College, and Yale University, and has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad. The former national chairman of the Society for Photographic Education, he was also chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Photography. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

Review:

"Bunnell encourages us to see previously overlooked aspects of individual images and provides a historical context for the photographers and their work as well as offering a unique personal perspective on the now supercharged world of art photography." --HotShoe International

"During Bunnell's prolific career as a writer, professor and curator at Princeton University he has developed an insightful personal perspective on photographers' image-making, which is evident in his writings." --Amateur Photographer

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1597110213
• ISBN 13: 9781597110211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288