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The shape of things : photographs from the Robert B. Menschel collection

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), publisher, host institution, Bajac, Quentin, author, curator, Meister, Sarah Hermanson, author

Overview

\"This survey explores 60 remarkable photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, all acquired with the support of Robert B. Menschel and meticulously selected for the book by the museum's chief curator of photography, Quentin Bajac. Ranging from the contemporary artist Andreas Gursky to William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the medium's founding figures, these works collectively tell the story of photography from its beginnings, but upend and newly illuminate that story through their arrangement in reverse chronological order. Each image is the subject of a brief, elegant text. The book borrows its title from a work by Carrie Mae Weems, one of the many great photographs that Menschel has contributed to the collection.\"--Artbook& website (viewed November 14, 2016)

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
• Subject: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Exhibitions. / Photography History 20th century Exhibitions.
• ISBN: 9781633450226, 1633450228

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TR653.M875 2016	1	BOOK	ARTS