History of Photography (Summer 1998): Photography and Architecture; Ansel Adams

  • Softcover
  • London/Washington DC: Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1998
By Weaver, Mike, and Anne Hammond, eds.; Daniel Naegele, guest ed.
London/Washington DC: Taylor & Francis Ltd.. Near Fine. 1998. (Vol. 22, No. 2). Softcover. [nice clean copy, just a tiny bit of edgewear, minor scuffing to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) The bulk of this issue is devoted to two topics. "Photography and Architecture" features a guest editorial and five articles focusing on that topic, including an interview with Ezra Stoller, and discussions of Walter Benjamin, Le Corbusier, and Violett-le-Duc. The section on Ansel Adams features four articles about his work: "Ansel Adams, The Zone System and the California School of Fine Arts"; "Ansel Adams and Louise Arner Boyd: A Camera Tells a Story"; "Ansel Adams and Spanish Colonial Arts"; and "Ansel Adams and Objectivism: Making a Photograph with Group f/64." Additionally, this issue contains: "The Objectivism of Edward Weston: An Attempt at a Functional Definition of the Art of the Camera," an essay written by Kenneth Rexroth in 1931 but published here for the first time; a biographical article on photographer Harry K. Shigeta of Chicago, by Christian A. Peterson; and an article about the photography, by Margaret Bourke-White and Henri Cartier-Bresson, of Gandhi's funeral in 1948. .

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