On the Art of Fixing A Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography

GREENOUGH, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck

ISBN 10: 0821217577 / ISBN 13: 9780821217573

Published by National Gallery of Art - The Art Institute of Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Chicago, IL, 1989

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 510 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show in Washington, D.C. that ran May 7 through July 30, 1989 and then traveled to Chicago and Los Angeles for additional dates. Includes essays by Greenough, Snyder, Travis and Westerbeck along with numerous black and white and some color images. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some of the usual sunning to and along the spine and edges. Signed by both Sarah Greenough and David Travis on the title page. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

Seller Inventory # 201889

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Art of Fixing A Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography
• Publisher: National Gallery of Art - The Art Institute of Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Chicago, IL
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821217577
• ISBN 13: 9780821217573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art and Exhibition Catalogues

About this title

Synopsis

Commemorating the birth of photography, this book derives its title from Fox Talbot's own description of his invention and features 400 landmark photographs never before exhibited of published by over 200 photographers. Essays accompany the pictures, delineating the major movements and revealing the range of experimentation that the artists have achieved. The work coincides with a major exhibition at the Art Institute in Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.