Photographic Masterpieces from Moma. The Thomas Walther Collection.
Editions of La Martinière, Editions of the Jeu de Paume| N° d'inventaire | 25014 |
| Format | 19 x 25.5 |
| Détails | 352 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782732495941 |
Presented at the Jeu de Paume, the Thomas Walther Collection is one of the most important acquisitions of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This exceptional photographic collection, which brings together nearly 350 photographs, reflects a key moment in the history of the discipline, through some one hundred emblematic figures of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. The Thomas Walther Collection invites both specialists and amateurs of the photographic medium to capture in a new way a period of collective innovation, today celebrated as one of the major episodes of modern art.
The Thomas Walther Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) is a photographic collection comprising nearly 350 photographs. It is unique not only for the exceptional quality of the prints, exclusively from the period, but also because it reflects a key moment in the history of the discipline, through some one hundred emblematic figures of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston, to name only the best known.
THE AUTHORS:
Sarah Meister holds a BA in Art History from Princeton University. She joined the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Photography in 1997 and became its curator in 2009. She is now the director of the Aperture Foundation.
Quentin Bajac is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He became curator of photography at the Musée d'Orsay in 1995, then joined the Centre Pompidou in 2003. He was chief curator of photography at MoMA from 2013 to 2018. Today, he directs the Jeu de Paume.
Michel Frizot is a historian specializing in photography, having worked at the CNRS, the École du Louvre, and the EHESS (Educational School of Management). He has contributed greatly to the recognition of all photographic practices and has profoundly transformed the study of the photographic field.
Catalogue of the Jeu de Paume exhibition.
Presented at the Jeu de Paume, the Thomas Walther Collection is one of the most important acquisitions of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This exceptional photographic collection, which brings together nearly 350 photographs, reflects a key moment in the history of the discipline, through some one hundred emblematic figures of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. The Thomas Walther Collection invites both specialists and amateurs of the photographic medium to capture in a new way a period of collective innovation, today celebrated as one of the major episodes of modern art.
The Thomas Walther Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) is a photographic collection comprising nearly 350 photographs. It is unique not only for the exceptional quality of the prints, exclusively from the period, but also because it reflects a key moment in the history of the discipline, through some one hundred emblematic figures of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston, to name only the best known.
THE AUTHORS:
Sarah Meister holds a BA in Art History from Princeton University. She joined the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Photography in 1997 and became its curator in 2009. She is now the director of the Aperture Foundation.
Quentin Bajac is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He became curator of photography at the Musée d'Orsay in 1995, then joined the Centre Pompidou in 2003. He was chief curator of photography at MoMA from 2013 to 2018. Today, he directs the Jeu de Paume.
Michel Frizot is a historian specializing in photography, having worked at the CNRS, the École du Louvre, and the EHESS (Educational School of Management). He has contributed greatly to the recognition of all photographic practices and has profoundly transformed the study of the photographic field.
Catalogue of the Jeu de Paume exhibition.