The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today [Hardcover]

Geoffrey Batchen (Author), Tobia Bezzola (Author), Roxana Marcoci (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 30, 2010

Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of documenting, redefining and disseminating works of art. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up and lighting, as well as through expostfacto techniques of dark room manipulation, collage, montage and assemblage, artists not only interpret the works they record but create stunning reinventions of them. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the one medium has become implicated in the understanding of the other. Through a selection of nearly 300 outstanding pictures by more than 100 artists from the nineteenth century to the present, The Original Copy looks at how and why sculpture became a photographic subject and how photography at once informs and challenges our knowledge of sculpture. The images range in subject from inanimate objects to performing bodies, and include major works by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Herbert Bayer, Hans Bellmer, Constantin Brancusi, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Ken Domon, Marcel Duchamp, Fischli/Weiss, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, David Goldblatt, Rachel Harrison, Hannah Hoch, Andre Kertesz, Louise Lawler, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Charles Negre, David Smith, Alina Szapocznikow, Gillian Wearing, Hannah Wilke and Iwao Yamawaki, among others.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Very cool exhibition catalog (with its images in tight sequence, it's visually much punchier than the show)... --Holland Cotter, The New York Times

Starred Review: This generously illustrated (302 color and duotone reproductions), oversized publication provides a significant, critical examination of the relationship between photography and sculpture, exploring how photography has influenced the understanding of sculpture and how sculpture has affected photography's development as an art form... Insightfully and professionally presented, this well-documented book, with endnotes and a selected bibliography, will interest general readers, students, scholars, professionals, and others. -- Library Journal

Product Details

• Hardcover: 242 pages
• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; First Edition edition (August 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870707574
• ISBN-13: 978-0870707575
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > Arts & Photography > Sculpture
  • #84 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions
  • #97 in Books > Arts & Photography > Museum Exhibition Catalogs

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