Photography Changes Everything by Marvin Heiferman

Photography Changes Everything by Marvin Heiferman

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Summary

Offers a rethinking of photography's impact on our culture and our lives. This title provides an exploration of the many ways photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world.

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Photography Changes Everything by Marvin Heiferman

Copublished by Aperture and the Smithsonian Institution
Curator and writer Marvin Heiferman has focused on the influence of photographic images on culture and history in projects such as Fame After Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1999) and Image World: Art and Media Culture at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1989). A contributing editor to Art in America, he serves on the faculty of both the International Center of Photography/Bard College and the School of Visual Art’s MFA programs in photography. He was creative consultant to the Smithsonian Photography Initiative from 2005 to 2011, during which time he conceptualized and curated click! photography changes everything (click.si.edu). Art historian and author of numerous essays and articles on American art and photography, Merry A. Foresta, was the founding director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative from 2000 to 2010. Prior to that, she was senior curator for photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her publications include Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray (1998), Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (1992), Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype (1995), and At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian (2004).
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ISBN 13 9781597111997
ISBN 10 1597111996
Title Photography Changes Everything
Author Marvin Heiferman
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Aperture
Year published 2012-06-11
Number of pages 264
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.