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Reality makes them dream : American photography, 1929-1941 / [curated by] Josie R. Johnson ; with contributions by Kim Beil, Rachel Heise Bolten, Altair Brandon-Salmon, Maggie Dethloff, Marco Antonio Flores, Anna Lee, Veronica Roberts, Yechen Zhao.

Fine Arts Library TR23 .R43 2023
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Johnson, Josie R. (Art museum curator), curator.
Beil, Kim, contributor.
Bolten, Rachel (Rachel Heise Bolten), contributor.
Brandon-Salmon, Altair, contributor.
Dethloff, Maggie, contributor.
Flores, Marco Antonio, active 2014- contributor.
Lee, Anna (Museum curator), contributor.
Roberts, Veronica, contributor.
Zhao, Yechen, contributor.
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, host institution.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Photography--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.
Photography.
Photograph collections--California--Stanford--Exhibitions.
Photograph collections.
Capital Group--Art collections--Exhibitions.
Capital Group.
Art museums.
California--Stanford.
United States.
Genre:
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
144 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm.
Other Title:
American photography, 1929-1941
Place of Publication:
Stanford, California : Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, [2023]
Contents:
Director's foreword / Veronica Roberts
Reality makes them dream : American photography, 1929-1941 / Josie R. Johnson
Natural wonders
Around, round about, about : high country crags and moon, sunrise, Kings Canyon National Park, California, c. 1935 / Kim Beil
Divine figures
Photographic fluency (its pleasures and pains) : Kyo Koike and Chao-Chen Yang / Yechen Zhao
Everyday splendors
Seema (Sophie) Aissen Weatherwax : photography / Anna Lee
Living relics
Eucalyptus leaves / Rachel Heise Bolten
The world of tomorrow
Sign of the times / Altair Brandon-Salmon
Street theater
Enchanted pictures / Marco Antonio Flores
Surreal encounters
Violable edges : Frederick Sommer's and Edward Weston's photographs of death in the desert / Maggie Dethloff
Bibliography
List of plates
Image credits.
Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, March 29-July 30, 2023.
Many items from a gift of 20th century photographs from the Capital Group Foundation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-138).
ISBN:
9798218075248
OCLC:
1392652387

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