portraits 1947-1976 1955-1985 1950-2000

books:

Danica Phelps: Every Day Life
Regine Basha, Deborah Bright, ...

The Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, 2006

When Phelps put out a call for critics and scholars to write about a subject found in her work--not about her work itself, but one of its themes--and then to trade their piece for a drawing of their choosing, it set off her third barter-based project. The first enmeshed her in a system of mutual indebtedness with other Brooklyn artists, the second with her compatriots in representation by Chelsea's LFL Gallery, and this last puts critics from ...

Photography in Boston: 1955-1985

The MIT Press, 2000

Winner, 2001 NEMA Publications Competition sponsored by the New England Museum Association. Boston played a crucial role in the development of American photography, including criticism, collecting, and curating, in the second half of the twentieth century. This book accompanies a landmark exhibition at the DeCordova Museum that includes such important American artists as Berenice Abbott, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, ...

Presumed Innocence

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Anne Higonnet, Rachel Lafo

DeCordova Museum, 2008

...Found Otherwise
Spanning several continents and encompassing nearly the entire history of photography, Presumed Innocence examines the other side of childhood through the eyes of some of the most notable photographers in the history of the art. Not too surprisingly from the title, the outlook leans towards the bleaker side, with many of the youths pictured appearing wise, worldly, and sometimes merely old beyond ...

Jules Aarons: Street Portraits 1947-1976

1 review

Charles River Publishing, 2003

Wonderful addition
I currently intern at a museum that owns a few of Aaron's prints. I have been part of a project that catalogues all those prints and I have gotten a close look at the actual photographs, and I absolutely fell in love with his work. This is my first Aarons catalog and I was so excited that they included Aaron's own notes about each section of his work. The essays were very informative and I ...

Painting in Boston 1950-2000: 1950-2000

University of Massachusetts Press, 2002

Although the history of painting in Boston during the first half of the twentieth century has been well documented, with particular attention to the so-called Boston School, the latter half of the century has been relatively neglected, despite the remarkable body of work produced during that period. This handsome volume, created by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in conjunction with a major exhibition, addresses that oversight. The ...