Title & Author:

Photography in Boston, 1955-1985 / edited by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo and Gillian Nagler.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2000.

Description:

xi, 193 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition, Photography in Boston, 1955-1985.
On t.p.: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index.
Photography in Boston, 1955-1970 : science and mysticism / Kim Sichel -- Photography in Boston, 1970-1985 : expansion and experimentation / Rachel Rosenfield Lafo -- Toward critical mass : writing and publishing about photography in the Boston area, 1955-1985 / A.D. Coleman -- Treasures of the moment : thirty years of Polaroid photography in Boston / Arno Rafael Minkkinen.

Summary:

Examines the crucial role that Boston played in the development of American photography in the second half of the twentieth century.
Boston played a crucial role in the development of American photography, including criticism, collecting, and curating, in the second half of the twentieth century. This book accompanies a landmark exhibition at the DeCordova Museum that includes such important American artists as Berenice Abbott, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, Harold Edgerton, Nan Goldin, Jerome Liebling, Nicholas Nixon, Barbara Norfleet, Olivia Parker, Rosamond Purcell, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White. The period from 1955 to 1985 reflects photography's acceptance as an art form, the influence of modernism, and the coalescence of a unique constellation of educational institutions, museums, and technological development in the Boston area that directly influenced artistic options for photography. Minor White's arrival at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 to run the Center for Creative Photography and the Polaroid Corporation's innovative support of photographic art suggest how developments built upon one another to create a regional critical mass in photography.

ISBN:

0262122294 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262122290 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Photography Massachusetts Boston History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photographie Massachusetts Boston Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photography.
Fotografie.
Foto's.
Massachusetts Boston.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Lafo, Rachel Rosenfield, 1951-
Nagler, Gillian.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236706
Call No.: BIB 166546
Status: Available