Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

by Bunnell, Peter C.

• ISBN13: 9781597110211
• ISBN10: 1597110213
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-15
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Over some 30 years as a professor and curator at Princeton University, Peter C. Bunnell has been a profoundly influential force in conversations about photography's past and present. He has written extensively--articles, books, catalogue essays--and this up-to-date collection of texts from throughout his career supersedes the beloved out-of-print Degrees of Guidance, which collected his work through the early 1980s. Most of these 34 essays are devoted to individual photographers, predominantly American, with the balance written about three key galleries that played crucial early roles in the medium's recognition and marketing. Over the years, Bunnell has sustained deep and mutually respectful relationships with photographers ranging from Minor White to Ruth Bernhard, Aaron Siskind and Jerry Uelsmann. His unsurpassed understanding of their work as well as that of contemporary masters makes his an enlightening view of a field that has undergone extraordinary changes under his watch. Inside the Photograph offers a unique personal perspective on the world of art photography during its shift from a small group of practitioners collected by an even smaller group of devotees to a supercharged international marketplace. Includes writings on Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Eikoh Hosoe, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and others.

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(3)
Malcolm Daniel
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Alfred Stieglitz and Camera Work	11	(6)
Observations on the Herbert Small Collection of Stieglitz's Early New York Photographs	17	(6)
Three by Stieglitz	23	(9)
Clarence H. White: The Reverence for Beauty	32	(21)
Gertrude Kasebier	53	(7)
Edward Weston on Photography	60	(18)
Ruth Bernhard	78	(6)
Barbara Morgan	84	(6)
Aaron Siskind: The Bond and the Free	90	(11)
Minor White's Photographic Sequence ``Rural Cathedrals'': A Reading	101	(14)
Harry Callahan	115	(11)
Walter Chappell: Time Lived	126	(7)
Walker Evans: An Introduction to His Work and His Recollections	133	(14)
Wright Morris	147	(14)
Robert Frank's Fourth of July---Jay, New York	161	(3)
Lisette Model	164	(5)
Diane Arbus	169	(7)
Elliott Erwitt	176	(4)
Eikoh Hosoe	180	(4)
Tokio Ito	184	(3)
Michiko Kon	187	(3)
Jerry N. Uelsmann	190	(7)
Jerry N. Uelsmann: Silver Meditations	197	(9)
Jerry N. Uelsmann: Museum Studies	206	(4)
John Pfahl: Altered Landscapes	210	(8)
Ray K. Metzker	218	(5)
Paul Caponigro	223	(4)
Emmet Gowin	227	(12)
Edward Ranney: The Character of the Place	239	(9)
Thomas Joshua Cooper: The Temperaments	248	(6)
Michael Kenna: A Twenty-Year Retrospective	254	(9)
GALLERIES
Helen Gee: Remembering the Limelight	263	(5)
The Witkin Gallery	268	(7)
Light Gallery	275	(3)
Acknowledgments	278	(1)
Index	279	(9)
Text and Photography Credits	288