Includes work by: Berenice Abbott, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Gertrud Arndt, Aurel Bauh, Herbert Bayer, Irene Bayer-Hecht, Lotte (Charlotte) Beese, Aenne Biermann, Georges Blanc, Blanc et Demilly (Théodore Blanc and Antoine Demilly), Karl Blossfeldt, Jacques-André Boiffard, Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Giulio Bragaglia and Arturo Bragaglia, Constantin Brancusi, Bill Brandt, Marianne Breslauer, Anne W. Brigman, Gertrude LeRoy Brown, Anton Bruehl, Francis Bruguière, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Max Burchartz, Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe), Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Citroen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edmund Collein and Heinz Loew, Erich Comeriner, Marjorie Content, Horacio Coppola, Ralston Crawford, Robert Demachy, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Walker Evans, Lore Feininger, Lyonel Feininger, Hans Finsler, Semyon Fridlyand, Jaromír Funke, Karl Grill, John Gutmann, Alexander Hackenschmied, Johan Hagemeyer, Paul Edmund Hahn, Handweberei Hablik-Lindemann and Elisabeth Lindemann, Jaroslava Hatláková, Raoul Hausmann, John P. Heins, Florence Henri, J. Jay Hirz, Irene Hoffmann, Bernard Shea Horne, George Hoyningen-Huene, Lotte Jacobi, Peter A. Juley, Roman Karmen, György Kepes, István Kerny, André Kertész, Edmund Kesting, Imre Kinszki, Gustav Klutsis, Fred Korth, August Kreyenkamp, Germaine Krull, Harry Lachman, Walter R. Latimer, Sr., Jiří Lehovec, Helmar Lerski, Otto Lindig, El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky), Herbert List, Heinz Loew, Eli Lotar, George Platt Lynes, Felix H. Man, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), Werner Mantz, Hannes Meyer, Lee Miller, Lisette Model, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, László Moholy-Nagy, László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy, Jean Moral, Georg Muche, Martin Munkácsi, Adolf Navara, Oskar Nerlinger, John Niegeman, Jean Painlevé, Gyula Pap, Paul Parker, Roger Parry, József Pécsi, Max Penson, Walter A. Peterhans, Robert Petschow, Edward W. Quigley, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Hans Richter, Leni Riefenstahl, Frieda Gertrud Riess, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Franz Roh, Werner Rohde, Hajo Rose, Jaroslav Rössler, Theodore Roszak, Albert Rudomine, Willi Ruge, Erich Salomon, August Sander, George H. Seeley, Friedrich Seidenstücker, Peter Sekaer, Charles Sheeler, Osamu Shiihara, Arthur Siegel, Edward Steichen, Kate Steinitz, Alfred Stieglitz, Cami Stone, Sasha Stone, Paul Strand, Jindřich Štyrský, Maurice Tabard, Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson, Raoul Ubac, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), U.S. Air Service (American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Photographic Section, under the command of Major Edward J. Steichen, A.S.A.), Carl Van Vechten, Luigi Veronesi, Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman), František Vobecký, Andreas Walser, Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Edward Weston, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Wanda Wulz, Imao Yamawaki, Yva (Else Simon), Willy Zielke, and Georgii Zimin. Includes bibliographical references (page 390-393).
Contents:
Introduction / Quentin Bajac. Acknowledgments / Maria Morris Hambourg, Lee Ann Daffner, and Mitra Abbaspour -- Introduction / Maria Morris Hambourg, Lee Ann Daffner and Mitra Abbaspour -- The age of distraction: photography and film / Maria Morris Hambourg -- Dive: a materialist history of the photographic industry in Germany and the Soviet Union between the wars / Lee Ann Daffner -- The language of vision: a discourse on photography in the interwar years / Mitra Abbaspour -- A basis for comparison: the Thomas Walther Collection as research collection / Jim Coddington -- Noble metals for the early modern era: platinum, silver-platinum, and palladium prints / Constance McCabe -- Material forms in nature: the photographs of Karl Blossfeldt / Hanako Murata -- Image isn't everything: revealing affinities across collections through the language of the photographic print / Paul Messier -- El Lissitzky's multilayer photographs: a technical analysis / Klaus Pollmeier -- Willi Ruge and Fotoaktuell: adventures for the press / Ute Eskildsen -- Face time / Matthew S. Witkovsky -- Photography and exhibition in Germany around 1930 / Olivier Lugon -- The age of distraction: photography and film / Quentin Bajac.
Summary:
"Photographs acquired by The Museum of Modern Art from Thomas Walther in 2001"--P. 11.
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