Barbara Morgan

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BARBARA MORGAN
Barbara Morgan has attained unique stature in the world of photography. A master of photo techniques, she took her subjects from life, from the dance, and from her imagination. The photographs she made of Martha Graham and her dance company became world-famous. These and other pictures—portraits, photograms, montages, and a series on children at summer camp—express emotions evoked as well as things seen. Her work, having passed the test of time, is ranked with the best of modern photography. Citing Barbara Morgan's "commanding position among American photographers," the eminent art critic, Alfred Frankenstein, from the San Francisco Chron/c/e, has written: "For one thing, no one has greater skill at catching the charm of children without sentimentality or artifice for another, she is one of the greatest portrait photographers America has produced." Four decades of her work are presented in 124 superbly reproduced photographs. Here are the dance pictures, the... Tovább

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BARBARA MORGAN
Barbara Morgan has attained unique stature in the world of photography. A master of photo techniques, she took her subjects from life, from the dance, and from her imagination. The photographs she made of Martha Graham and her dance company became world-famous. These and other pictures—portraits, photograms, montages, and a series on children at summer camp—express emotions evoked as well as things seen. Her work, having passed the test of time, is ranked with the best of modern photography. Citing Barbara Morgan's "commanding position among American photographers," the eminent art critic, Alfred Frankenstein, from the San Francisco Chron/c/e, has written: "For one thing, no one has greater skill at catching the charm of children without sentimentality or artifice for another, she is one of the greatest portrait photographers America has produced." Four decades of her work are presented in 124 superbly reproduced photographs. Here are the dance pictures, the children at play, the thought-provoking montages all of which have influenced contemporary photography. A chronology, exhibition listing, and bibliography are included. This monograph will prove significant to anyone interested in photography as an expressive medium, for, as Peter C. Bunnell explains in the introduction, " it is through the work of such an artist as Barbara Morgan that we may gain the understanding that above all else photography is a medium of interpretative expression and not of depiction, that photographs may be seen to represent imagination limited only by truth, and material facts raised to the power of revelation." Vissza