An American Century of Photography From Dry-Plate to Digital

This volume accompanies a travelling exhibition of masterworks from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Begun in 1964, the collection is distinguished by the quality of its contents and by the breadth of its perspective on the art of photography.;Spanning the mid-1880s to the present, this book is a survey of the most important artists, ideas, and works in American photography. It emphasizes the relationships between individuals and aesthetic movements, and the intellectual and cultural climate in which artists work. The images produced range from the most famous, such as Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother", to works that were previously little known or unpublished. The variety of the selection is intended to expand understanding of the complexities and riches of American photography, including as it does, works by European artists who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, among them Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ilse Bing, and Andre Kertesz.;This exhibition opened at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, in December 1994, and travels to Amherst, New York City, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, and San Diego.