Main entry:

Corwin, Sharon, author.

Title & Author:

American modern : documentary photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White / Sharon Corwin, Jessica May, and Terri Weissman.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press ; Fort Worth, Texas : Amon Carter Museum ; Waterville, Maine : Colby College Museum of Art, [2010]
©2010

Description:

xiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition American modern : Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, on view at Amon Carter Museum, October 1, 2010-January 2, 2011, The Art Institute of Chicago, February 5-May 15, 2011, Colby College Museum of Art, July 9-October 2, 2011"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Berenice Abbott, Elizabeth McCausland, and the "Great Democratic Book" / Terri Weissman -- "The work of an artist": Walker Evan's American photographs / Jessica May -- Constructed documentary: Margaret Bourke-White from the steel mill to the South / Sharon Corwin.

Summary:

This volume, a companion to the exhibition of the same name, explores the reinvention of documentary photography in the 1930s, focusing on the work of three iconic figures: Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780520265622 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520265629 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991 Exhibitions.
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 Exhibitions.
Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971 Exhibitions.
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991
Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
Abbott, Berenice.
Evans, Walker.
Bourke-White, Margaret.
Documentary photography United States Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art) United States Exhibitions.
Photographers United States Biography Exhibitions.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis Expositions.
Modernisme (Art) États-Unis Expositions.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies Expositions.
Photography.
Documentary photography
Modernism (Art)
Photographers
Dokumentarphotographie.
Photographie.
United States History 1933-1945 Exhibitions.
États-Unis Histoire 1933-1945 Expositions.
United States
USA.

Form/genre:

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

Added entries:

May, Jessica, 1977- author.
Weissman, Terri, 1969- author.
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.
Art Institute of Chicago.
Colby College. Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269472
Call No.: BIB 201724
Status: Available