Albert Renger-Patzsch : joy before the object / essay by Donald Kuspit ; preface by Weston Naef.

Title & Author:

Albert Renger-Patzsch : joy before the object / essay by Donald Kuspit ; preface by Weston Naef.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, NY : Aperture ; Malibu, California : J. Paul Getty Museum, [1993]
Hong Kong : Everbest Printing Co., Ltd., [1993]
©1993

Description:

79 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Series:

Aperture, 0003-6420 ; no. 131

Notes:
"In association with the J. Paul Getty Museum."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object is the first major publication in English on this influential German photographer, who is one of the founders of modern European photography. Amid the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in Germany between the wars, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0892362731
9780892362738
0893815594 (pbk.)
9780893815592 (pbk.)
0893815373 (pbk.)
9780893815370 (pbk.)

Subject:

Renger-Patzsch, Albert, 1897-1966.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert.
Renger-Patzsch, Albert, (1897-1966)
Photographers Germany Biography.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographes Allemagne Biographies.
Photographie artistique Allemagne.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Photographers
Fotografie
Photographie.
Germany
Photographers Biography Germany

Form/genre:

Biography
Exhibition catalogues.
photobooks.
Biographies
Photobooks
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Renger-Patzsch, Albert, 1897-1966, photographer.
Kuspit, Donald B. (Donald Burton), 1935- writer of supplementary textual content.
Naef, Weston J., 1942- writer of preface.
Byrne, Wendy, book designer.
Aperture Foundation, publisher.
J. Paul Getty Museum, publisher.
Aperture (San Francisco, Calif.) ; no. 131.

Joy before the object

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86384
Call No.: TR140.R412 (ID:93-B1866)
Status: Available

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