This new collection is proof that new ways of telling the history of photography still exist. Featuring a selection of works from the very personal collection of Cologne-based connoisseur Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim, An American in Europe experiences the development of photography in the 20th century not in a chronological fashion, but according to genre: from portraits, to landscapes, to architectural photography, to still lifes, to fashion and film. Oppenheim gave her outstanding collection of about 700 photographs to the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach in 1999. This book focuses on surprisingly atypical choices from the oeuvres of 125 seminal artists, such as Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Rodchenko, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Ulrich Tillman. Over 130 images in duotone and color illustrate the aesthetic differences between various styles, genres, and authors, and show diversities and affinities among different continents, cultures and periods. This extraordinary recombination of photographs by master artists offers viewers a fresh look at the world of photography.
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In 1998, the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, FL, received 700 photographs from the Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim an extraordinary gift. The American-born collector's income from a 39-year marriage to Alfred von Oppenheim, now the senior member of Germany's Oppenheim banking family, lubricated her interest in 20th-century photography and led to an outstanding collection of works from 125 different photographers, among them Walker Evans, Alexander Rodchenko, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Berenice Abbott. This volume is the formal catalog for "An American in Europe," an exhibition of what are touted to be unusual photographs from the collection. Unfortunately, this volume neutralizes any excitement or sense of the "new" that these photographs may have once held, and the book's Old World-style design dulls the impact of what should be "modern" photography. The Norton is lucky to have the baroness's contribution, but it has not succeeded in giving its catalog sufficient shine. Not recommended. David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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