Laurence Salzmann : a life with others / Jason Francisco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salzmann, Laurence, photographer.

Francisco, Jason, author.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Libraries, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salzmann, Laurence--Catalogs.

Salzmann, Laurence.

Salzmann, Laurence--Criticism and interpretation.

Photography, Artistic--20th century--Catalogs.

Photography, Artistic.

Photography, Artistic--21st century--Catalogs.

Portrait photography--Catalogs.

Portrait photography.

Genre:

catalogs (documents)

Catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 390 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Life with others

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2022.

Summary:

Laurence Salzmann: A Life with Others is the first critical consideration of the fifty-plus-year career of Laurence Salzmann, whose archive was acquired in 2018 by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Salzmann's long career has touched on an exceptionally broad range of topics, including: cultural anthropology, folk and folklore, race and ethnicity, migration, postCommunism, Latin American studies, Jewish studies, and many more. The book includes more than 230 of Salzmann's photographs from across his career. -- Oak Knoll Press.

"This book is a definite monograph of Laurence Salzmann' Photographs works that celebrates his close to 60 year career in photography. Commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania's Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts in honor of Salzmann's gift of a substantial photographic and film archive that covers works from his 60 year career as a photographer and filmmaker. Text by noted photographer and photo essayist Jason Francisco*. Cover photograph by Siegfried Halus of a young Salzmann in 1966 while he was filming his film The Ragman with a 16 mm Bolex movie camera. Laurence Salzmann's life as a professional photographer spans more than half a century and traverses four continents. This vast visual body of work is at the same time fine art and anthropological field research displaying ethnographic and aesthetic qualities of the highest caliber. His interdisciplinary projects cover a range of human experiences and geographical locales, documenting indigenous people in Mexico, Cuba, and Peru, the last surviving members of Jewish communities in Romania and Turkey, Black-Jewish relationships in the United States, life in single room occupancy hotels in New York City during the 1960s, and lived experiences on the streets of Philadelphia. The Penn Libraries celebrates the donation of the Laurence Salzmann and Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann Collection not only for the beauty, depth, range, and human significance of its images. The Salzmann Collection gift, comprising more than twenty distinct projects, also programmatically advances our ongoing curatorial efforts to rethink the role of photography in libraries, both as primary sources to collect and as a foundation for building and teaching visual literacy."

Notes:

Includes filmography (pages 384-387).

OCLC:

1547662467