An American in Europe

by Oppenheim, Jeane Von; Burke, James D.; Goodrow, Gerard A.; Oppenheim, Jeane Von; Norton Museum of Art

• ISBN13: 9783775709736
• ISBN10: 3775709738
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

This new collection is proof that new ways of telling the history of photography still exist. Featuring a selection of works from the very personal collection of Cologne-based connoisseur Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim, An American in Europeexperiences the development of photography in the 20th century not in a chronological fashion, but according to genre: from portraits, to landscapes, to architectural photography, to still lifes, to fashion and film. Oppenheim gave her outstanding collection of about 700 photographs to the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach in 1999. This book focuses on surprisingly atypical choices from the oeuvres of 125 seminal artists, such as Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Rodchenko, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Ulrich Tillman. Over 130 images in duotone and color illustrate the aesthetic differences between various styles, genres, and authors, and show diversities and affinities among different continents, cultures and periods. This extraordinary recombination of photographs by master artists offers viewers a fresh look at the world of photography.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Christina Orr-Cahall
An Innovative Collection: Reflections on 100 Years of Photography	9	(12)
James D. Burke
Plates Theatre, Figure Studies, Spaces, Constructions, Structures, Cityscapes	21	(58)
A Personal View	79	(4)
Baroness Jeane Von Oppenheim
Plates Portraits, Landscapes, Nature, Still Life	83	(58)
Checklist And Selected Bibliography	141	(12)
Photographers' Biographies	153
Gerard A. Goodrow