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Exhibition Review
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1101-1103
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Reviewer:
Silberman, Robert (Silberman, Robert; Silberman, Robert B.)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Bourke-White, Margaret / Cartier-Bresson, Henri / Parks, Gordon
artists:
Smith, William Eugene / Eisenstadt, Alfred
museums and institutions:
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, United States / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
subjects:
Life magazine / Photography / Magazines (periodicals)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography Edited by Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh. 336 pp. incl. 250 col. + b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020), $60. ISBN 978–0–300–25088–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Cover of Life showing Fort Peck Dam, Montana, 23rd November 1936. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White. (LIFE Picture Collection; © 1936 The Picture Collection Inc.).
Attributed works:
22. Detail of a contact sheet of photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 15th August 1945. Gelatin silver print. (LIFE Picture Collection; image by Alfred Eisenstaedt; © 1945 The Picture Collection Inc).
Attributed works:
23. Flame burner Ann Zarik, by Margaret Bourke-White. 1943. Gelatin silver print, printed c.2000, 40.6 by 50.8 cm. (Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ; © 1943 The Picture Collection Inc.).
Exhibition Review
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art. Dallas Museum of Art
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 963-965
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Reviewer:
Silberman, Robert (Silberman, Robert; Silberman, Robert B.)
Subjects
art literature:
Friedman, Martin
artists:
Sheeler, Charles / O'Keeffe, Georgia / Demuth, Charles / Murphy, Gerald / Duchamp, Marcel / Schamberg, Morton Livingston / Picabia, Francis / Ault, George / Frankl, Paul / Carter, Clarence Holbrook / Gursky, Andreas / Struth, Thomas / Bourke-White, Margaret
artists:
Driggs, Elsie / Storrs, John Bradley
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Photographs / Videos / Industrial design / Furniture / Art objects
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States
places:
United States / Dallas / Minneapolis
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Precisionism / Machine aesthetic / Digital technology / Cities / Popular culture / Abstract art / Modernism / Surrealism / Landscapes (visual works) / Geometry / Automobiles / Design / Workers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Watch, by Gerald Murphy. 1925. Canvas, 199.4 by 200.4 cm. (Dallas Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
17. American landscape, by Charles Sheeler. 1930. Canvas, 61 by 78.8 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; exh. Dallas Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
18. ‘Skyscraper’ bookcase, by Paul T. Frankl. c.1926. Lacquered wood and brass, 242.6 by 109.2 by 33 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art; exh. Dallas Museum of Art).
Publication Received
American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White
06/2011 | 1299 | 153
Pages: 416
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Reviewer:
Griffin, Christopher (Griffin, Christopher)
Subjects
artists:
Abbott, Berenice / Evans, Walker / Bourke-White, Margaret
print:
Evans, Walker
print:
Abbott, Berenice
print:
Bourke-White, Margaret
subjects:
Photography / Photographs / American (United States of America) / Documentaries / Social history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White | author: Corwin, Sharon , author: May, Jessica , author: Weissman, Terri