An American in Europe -
The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art
KORTE INHOUD
Can one tell the history of photography in yet another new way? If you let yourself be guided by the selection of works from the very personal collection of the Cologne-based collector Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim presented in this book, you experience the development of photography in the 20th century not in a chronological fashion but according to the transitions of portraits, landscapes, architecture, still lifes, fashion and film. Oppenheim gave her outstanding collection of about 700 photographs to the Norton Museum of Art at Palm Beach in 1999. This book is focused on unusual, atypical samples from the oeuvres of 125 seminal artists such as Berenice Abbot, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alexander Rodtschenko and Ulrich Tillmann. About 130 illustrations in duplex and color illustrate the aesthetic difference existing between various types of imagery and exemplify positions from different continents, cultures and periods. This extraordinary combination offers viewers a fresh n...
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2000Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag176 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3775709738ISBN-13: 9783775709736Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2000, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar [Auteur: James D. Burke / Jeane von Oppenheim] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: HATJE CANTZ] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art]
