landscape biography highlights photography

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2 reviews
Sue Davidson Lowe, Anne Havinga, ...

MFA Publications, 2002

Entirely worthwhile read.
This is an excellent biography. Written by Sue Davidson Lowe, Alfred Stieglitz's niece, "Stieglitz : A Memoir/Biography" is written objectively, yet with the knowingness and acceptance of a relative. This book presents a well-balanced picture of Stieglitz, his accomplishments (not only his own artistic endeavors, but his efforts to make photography an accepted art form), friends, family, and ...

F. Holland Day
Pam Roberts, Edwin Becker, ...

B.V. Waanders Uitgeverji, 2001

This book brings the beautiful and controversial images of the esoteric camera artist Fred Holland Day back to the attention of the international audience which was both thrilled and scandalized by this same work in 1900. Fred Holland Day (1864-1933) was born in South Dedham, Massachusetts, into a family of wealth and social responsibility. By 1900 he was, with Alfred Stieglitz, the most influential champion and practitioner of art photography ...

Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet

2 reviews
Paul Gauguin, Karen Haas, ...

MFA Publications, 2002

A spectaculrly beautifully, illustrated art history
Impressions Of Light: The French Landscape From Corot To Monet is a lavishly, richly, spectaculrly beautifully, illustrated art history showcasing one hundred years of French art and 56 French artists. Included area wealth of rare and unusual monotypes by Degas, three states of a softground etching by Pissarro, and numerous illustrative works by lesser-known by equally significant contemporaries. ...

Photography: MFA Highlights

1 review
Anne Havinga, Karen Haas, ...

MFA Publications, 2007

Especially for anyone who can't easily reach the Museum of Fine Arts in person
The latest volume in the MFA Highlights series, Photography features over one hundred gorgeous color and duotone photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts' collection. An in-depth essay following the aesthetic and technical history of photography as an art form introduces the connoisseur to the wonderfully diverse and beautiful selection. Photographs by a wide range of classic masters, from ...