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Open City: Street Photographs since 1950

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by: Kerry Brougher, Nobuyoshi Araki, Wolfgang Tillmans, Raghubir Singh, Philip-Lorca diCorcia See Larger Image Price: $71.98 as of 03/21/2010 09:19 EDT Used Price: $71.98 Third Party New Price: $71.98 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 770 EAN: 9783775710664 ISBN: 3775710663 Label: Hatje Cantz Publishers Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: August 15, 2001 Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers Release Date: September 02, 2001 Studio: Hatje Cantz Publishers Related Items: Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s Photography After Frank The Americans How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 (Whitney Museum of American Art) see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Street photography has a long and varied history, encompassing such artists as Walker Evans from the 1930s, Robert Frank from the 1950s, and Garry Winogrand from the 1970s, each of whom, along with other practitioners, siezed the medium as their own and extended it, creating something new. Open City brings together the work of 19 artists to examine the history of street photography over the course of the last half-century. It takes as its starting point photographers such as Lee Friedlander and William Klein, who were instrumental in the development of a radical new approach to documentary photography, aided by the increasing portablility of camera equipment. For these and subsequent artists, the street has continued to hold an inherent fascination as a theater of human activity. Open City reflects the diversity of the work stimulated by this revolution: from Terry Donovan's advertising and fashion photography, to Susan Meiselas's photographs of war-torn Nicaragua and Raghubir Singh's vibrant and colorful images of his native India. Color, now considered a key tool for photographers, has only in recent years been legitimized, in part thanks to the work of American photographer William Eggleston during the late 1970s. Open City also includes the work of a newer generation of photographers, including the Turner Prize-winning Wolfgang Tillmans, and examines the the way in which contemporary practice continues to react to and build upon the tradition of street photography. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A refreshing break from the norm Finally, an exhibition about street photography OUTSIDE of New York City. Although there was certainly a bias for American photographers, one can argue that, as far as the Western world is concerned, America essentially invented the "street" aesthetic (thanks, particulary to Robert Frank) as a decisive rejection of documentary photography (a la the FSA years) and photojournalism. Regardless, it was really refreshing to see street photography from India, Asia, and Africa, and the color works by Raghubir ... Read More Rating: - Exhibit Catalogue is a Mixed Bag Published as a catalogue to an exhibit that debuted at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art, this coffee-table book gathers the work of 19 photographers under the somewhat hazy concept of "street photography." If you are familiar with Roberto Rossellini's groundbreaking 1945 film, which lends its name to the book and exhibit, cocurators Russell Ferguson and Kerry Brougher were attempting to bring together work that explores the notion of the camera liberated from the carefully controlled confines of the studio. ... Read More

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