Photography Pastforward: Aperture at 50 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931788375 ISBN 13: 9781931788373

Publisher: Aperture, 2002

Synopsis

In October of 2002, Aperture released a 240-page golden-anniversary hardcover book that comprises, in effect, the pictorial history of the second half of the twentieth century. The book features 250 images by photographers published by "Aperture" magazine over the past 50 years--from the masters of the twentieth century to today's emerging innovators. More than 40 images in the book have never before been published. The book traces Aperture's fascinating history as well as the currents in photography that have brought the medium to its present status as one of the most important art forms. It demonstrates how Aperture has shaped this evolution while expanding the international audience for photography and the visual arts.

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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.

About the Author:

R.H. Cravens--longtime contributor to many Aperture books and articles--provides an in-depth anecdotal chronicle of Aperture's evolution based largely on the magazine issues themselves and interviews with Michael E. Hoffman, Publisher and Executive Director from 1964 through 2001, whose comprehensive vision and voice unearths a history as rife with innovation as the history of photography itself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1931788375
• ISBN 13: 9781931788373
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 239