American politicians
American politicians: photographs from 1843 to 1993 Susan Kismaric
Publisher: New York : Museum of Modern Art : c1994.
ISBN: 0870701584
LCC: E176
Edition: (Museum of Modern Art : pbk.)
Summary:
American Politicians presents a marvellous collection of images, from
Mathew Brady's indelible portraits of Abraham Lincoln to the
carefully staged "photo opportunities" of today. Among them are icons
of political photography - Calvin Coolidge wearing a Native American
headdress, Fiorello La Guardia reading comics over the radio, Harry
Truman playing piano for Lauren Bacall, Lyndon Johnson displaying the
scar from his surgery. Also reproduced are many rare photographs of
both prominent and obscure practitioners of the rites of American
politics, caught unrelentingly by the camera. The pictures have been
selected from an array of public and private collections, including
those of the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the
Museum of the City of New York, the New-York Historical Society, the
Chicago Historical Society. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and
the archives of photo agencies, newspapers, and magazines. Many of
the photographs in this book are the work of professional news
photographers, but after World War II, independent artists offered
alternative views, represented here by the photographs of Robert
Frank in the 1950s, Garry Winogrand and Elliott Erwitt in the 1960s,
Larry Fink in the 1970s, and Judith Joy Ross in the 1980s. Despite
unceasing advances in visual technology, which simultaneously aid and
hinder photographers, and despite the best efforts of political
handlers, both newsmen and independents continue to make the pictures
that help to create and confirm the image of ourselves we see
reflected in our politicians.
Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition American politicians:
photographs from 1843 to 1993 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
October 6, 1994, to January 3, 1995"--T.p. verso.
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