
The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection
Photography from the Walther Collection
Brian Wallis(Editor)
Steidl (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. May 2015
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-3-86930-994-1 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout the modern era, photography has been enlisted to classify the world and its people. Driven by a belief in the
scientific objectivity of photographic evidence, the systems
utilized to classify photographs have shaped modern visual culture. Accompanying the exhibition "The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection," this book investigates the production and uses of serial portraiture, vernacular imagery, architectural surveys and time-based performance in photography from the 1880s to the present, bringing together works by artists from Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Setting early modernist photographers Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander in dialogue with contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei, Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Avedon, Zanele Muholi, Stephen Shore and Zhang Huan, The Order of Things illustrates how typological methods in photography have developed globally.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Gottingen
Germany
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
With over 1,100 illustrations in colour and black and white
Dimensions
Height: 29 cm
Width: 29 cm
Weight
2740 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86930-994-1 (9783869309941)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Brian Wallis is the former Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions
at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he
organized numerous exhibitions including "Weegee: Murder is My
Business" and "Miroslav Tichý." He is currently on the faculty of the
ICP-Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies.