John Ransom Phillips: Ransoming Mathew Brady

Phillips, John Ransom and Alan Trachtenberg

ISBN 10: 1555953263 / ISBN 13: 9781555953263

Published by Clarissa Editions and Hudson Hills Press, 2010

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Hardcover with dustjacket, 244 pages, very good condition, light spotting to dj on rear, no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Ransom Phillips: Ransoming Mathew Brady
• Publisher: Clarissa Editions and Hudson Hills Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555953263
• ISBN 13: 9781555953263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Phillips, John
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Synopsis

In a series of oils and watercolours John Ransom Philips portrays the complexity of 19th-century photographer Mathew Brady, whose work includes the iconic photographs of Abraham Lincoln and the many Civil War battlefield scenes.

About the Author

John Ransom Phillips is an artist and author whose work has been exhibited internationally at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art in Chicago; Museo de Arte Moderne in Buenos Aires; the Fundacao de Arte e Cultural de Ubatuba in Sao Paolo, and Zamalek Gallery, Cairo. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and has been a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Alan Trachtenberg is The Neil Gray, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University, and the author of 'Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans'(1989).