How you look at it
Thomas Weski & Heinz Liesbrock
BOO 1853 U
€30,00
| CONDITION & NOTES | |
| Good – Very Good / Exterior has light shelf wear. |
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| TYPE | PUBLICATION YEAR |
| Hardcover |
2000 |
| EDITION | LANGUAGE |
| First |
German |
| PUBLISHER | DIMENSIONS |
| Distributed Art Publishers | 26.5 x 22 x 5 cm |
CONDITION
Good – Very Good / Exterior has light shelf wear.
TYPE
Hardcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
2000
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
German
PUBLISHER
Distributed Art Publishers
DIMENSIONS
26.5 x 22 x 5 cm
Good – Very Good / Exterior has light shelf wear.
TYPE
Hardcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
2000
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
German
PUBLISHER
Distributed Art Publishers
DIMENSIONS
26.5 x 22 x 5 cm
ABOUT
How You Look at It is the catalog of a major photographic exhibition organized by the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany. Its thesis — that photography is the defining art of the 20th century — is straightforward, but its organization is unusual. Rather than a chronological survey of iconic images, the book presents only 40 photographers, from the pioneering Frenchman Atget to postwar Americans and modern German masters like Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky. This enables the chosen artists to be shown in depth, though the criteria for their being chosen are not clear to this reviewer.
Examples of non-photographic artworks are sprinkled through the book — a Picasso portrait, for example, or a David Hockney cityscape —giving context to the photographs. The thoughtful text consists of essays by the two curators of the show and three other critics who analyze the current theoretical underpinnings of photography. The 500 images speak for themselves, making How You Look at It valuable material for anyone interested in photography and its relations to contemporary cultural issues.