Photography Past and Forward : Aperture at Fifty

by Photographs by Ansel Adams, Robert Capa, William Eggleston, Danny Lyon, Sally Ma

• ISBN13: 9780893819965
• ISBN10: 0893819964
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-09-05
• Publisher: Aperture

Summary

In October of 2002, Aperture released a 240-page golden-anniversary hardcover book that comprises, in effect, the pictorial history of the second half of the twentieth century. The book features 250 images by photographers published by Aperturemagazine over the past fifty years--from the masters of the twentieth century to today's emerging innovators. More than forty images in the book have never before been published. The book traces Aperture's fascinating history as well as the currents in photography that have brought the medium to its present status as one of the most important art forms. It demonstrates how Aperture has shaped this evolution while expanding the international audience for photography and the visual arts.

Author Biography

R.H. Cravens--longtime contributor to many Aperture books and articles--provides an in-depth anecdotal chronicle of Aperture's evolution based largely on the magazine issues themselves and interviews with Michael E. Hoffman, Publisher and Executive Director from 1964 through 2001, whose comprehensive vision and voice unearths a history as rife with innovation as the history of photography itself.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Visions & Voices: A Celebration of Genius in Photography	p. 8
Prescient Beginnings
Context, Conflicts, and Congeries	p. 62
The Indispensable Art: Survival	p. 128
The Evolution of an Ideal	p. 190
Credits	p. 238
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