Main entry:

Fay, Brendan, 1978- author.

Title & Author:

Photography as a way of life : Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan / Brendan Fay.

Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Art Museum : in association with Princeton University Press, [2026]
©2026

Description:

346 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey, April 10-September 7, 2026; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, October 9, 2026-February 7, 2027; Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, March 13-July 31, 2027; and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, August 28, 2027-January 9, 2028.
Includes bibliographcial refereneces (pages 334-335) and index.
How to Hold a Camera -- How to Print a Picture -- How to Read a Photograph -- How to Find your Audience -- How to Expand your Horizons.

Summary:

"Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan carved out a new role for photographers and their art in the decades after World War Two. Photography as a Way of Life traces how these influential teachers and theorists reimagined the medium as a livelihood and a life’s work.Together with growing markets for snapshots and photojournalism, the postwar years saw the emergence of photography as an established field of study in higher education. In this beautifully produced book, Brendan Fay takes readers from the late 1940s through the 1970s to explore how White, Siskind, and Callahan transformed the ways photography was taught, shown, and understood. Inclined toward abstraction and personally expressive images, they modeled a commitment to art in the face of commercial and professional pressures. In classrooms and private workshops and through exhibitions, photobooks, and magazines—including Aperture, with White as its founding editor—they offered training and inspiration while building a devoted audience for their pictures.Blending stunning illustrations with rare archival material published here for the first time, Photography as a Way of Life brings together the work of three boldly inventive artists and educators who opened new possibilities for photography in postwar America and exemplified a vision of learning and living through photography." -- Book jacket.

ISBN:

0691285454
9780691285450 (hardcover)
(ebook)
9780691285467

Subject:

White, Minor Exhibitions.
Siskind, Aaron Exhibitions.
Callahan, Harry M. Exhibitions.
Photography United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325329
Call No.: 325329
Copy: 1
Status: Available