From the Heart: The Power of Photography - A Collector's Choice
Language: English
Published by Aperture, 1985
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- Title
- From the Heart: The Power of Photography - A Collector's Choice
- Author
- Adam D. Weinberg, (Preface) Mark Haworth-Booth, (Essay) Marianne Wiggins
- Publisher
- Aperture
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Oversized Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0893817759
- ISBN 13
- 9780893817756
- Seller catalogs
- PHOTOGRAPHY
After twenty-five rewarding years of building one of the foremost photography collections in America--after "shuddering" when she made that seemingly expensive initial purchase of an Atget--Sondra Gilman is now showing her collection for the first time, offering a new generation the chance to feel the intense contact with visual things that she herself felt at the outset of her life as a collector of photography and continues to experience today.
Noted for its uncommon vision and aesthetic clarity within a wide reach of photographic medium, the Sondra Gilman Collection provides an invaluable introduction to the art of photography, to where it has been and where it is going.
Within this volume are some of the finest examples of photography produced over the last one hundred years, from the great masters to the newcomers making their mark. The Preface by Mark Haworth-Booth, curator of photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, discusses the important collections of the past. Adam Weinberg, curator of the permanent collection for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, comments on the Sondra Gilman Collection in particular, providing themes to help understand the images: instantaneous time versus the eternal, appropriating other works into a picture, taking the common and making it strange, the self divided as one sees oneself in relation to others, and he includes pointers on developing a collector's eye. Award-winning novelist Marianne Wiggins plays with the idea of the power of photography. For each of the photographers featured in the book, there is a perceptive thumbnai biograpy and a significant quote by the photographer about the making of pictures.
From the Heart: The Power of Photography--A Collector's Choice provides an inside look at the art of photography and sends a message that you too can collect photography.
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About the Author
Mark Haworth-Booth has been with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London since 1970 and is curator of photography. His most recent book is Photography: An Indepedent Art, Photographs from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1839-1996. He contributes regulary to Aperture, History of Photography, and the Times Literary Supplement.
Marianne Wiggins is the author most recently of the novels Eveless Eden and John Dollar. Her fiction has won both the Whiting Foundation Award and the Janet Heidegger Kafka Award. As a Trustee of the Photographer's Gallery in London, England, she writes frequently on the cultural significance of personal and professional photographs. In private she collects rock samples, unusual cookbooks, and tintypes.
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