Photography Past/forward: Aperture at 50 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0893819964 ISBN 13: 9780893819965

Publisher: Aperture, 2005

Synopsis

Since its founding in 1952, Aperture has grown from a small periodical to a cultural phenomenon that reaches the largest and most diverse audience for significant photography worldwide. By examining it's own history, Aperture at 50: An Ideal in Photography explores the currents in photography that have brought the medium to its present status as one of the most important art forms, and arguably, the most powerful medium of communication. It also demonstrates how Aperture has shaped and furthered this evolution, expanding the international audience for photography. A remarkable selection of images culled from every period of Aperture's history illuminate photography's ever-expanding ability to evince uncommon beauty and render subjects as diverse as landscape and portraiture to issues of international social concern, whether civil rights, AIDS, domestic abuse, freedoms of speech, environmental conservation, or mass migration, to name a few. Other selections will explore evolving photographic techniques that have allowed image-makers to push artistic boundaries, from Aperture's revival of the vintage photogravure process to current explorations in the digital realm. With groundbreaking images by such early masters as Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and William Henry Fox Talbot to seminal figures in the history of the magazine including Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Barbara Morgan, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, this lush publication traces the evolution of both the magazine and the photographers whose work has become an important part of its story. Long-time collaborators Sally Mann, Eugene Richards, Richard Misrach, Robert Adams, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, and Mary Ellen Mark, among many others, have made a selection of recent work, which together with images and original spreads from past issues offer a dynamic view of the medium's breadth of focus and innovation. Remaining true to Aperture's history of providing a vital sounding board for a vast community of thinkers on and practitioners of photography, Aperture at 50< is supplemented by texts-excerpted from Aperture< issues #1 (1952) through #165 (2001)-in which a range of voices from Nancy and Beaumont Newhall to Danny Lyon, Madonna, and Arthur Danto expound theories, manifestos, musings, and critiques on a broad range of photography-related subjects.

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Review:

... The photographs leap all over the place, so a portrait of Marcel Duchamp from 1965 sits opposite a drag queen from 2000, seemingly at ease ... But they all have one thing in common: quality.

Synopsis:

The history, evolution, and future of photography as seen through Aperture's eyes. Over 250 images by master photographers including: Ansel Adams, Robert Capa, William Eggleston, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray K. Metzker, Duane Michals, Sebastiao Salgado, Cindy Sherman, and more...Anecdotal chronicle by R.H. Cravens Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50: This special golden anniversary collector's book featuring over 175 images by master photographers that Aperture has published over the past fifty years, including Ansel Adams, Robert Capa, William Eggleston, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray K. Metzker, Duane Michals, Sebastiao Salgado, Cindy Sherman and others. Many of the works included in this publication have not been seen in decades and close to 25 percent of the work is as yet unpublished images by major figures in the Photography community. By examining its own history, the book explores the currents in photography that have brought the medium to its present status as one of the most important art forms.

The book also demonstrates how Aperture has shaped and furthered this evolution through expanding the international audience for photography and visual arts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0893819964
• ISBN 13: 9780893819965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Cravens R.H.