An excellent survey of excellent work with photographs by Bayer, Bellmer, Blossfeldt, Feininger, Gutmann, Hausmann, Jacobi, Kepes, Lerski, List, Moholy-Nagy, Regner-Patzsch, Sander, Salomon, and more. Compiled with text by Van Deren Coke. 59-page essay with text illustrations followed by 108 full page b&w photographic plates; 9 x 10.75 inches. Chronology, bibliography and artist biographies.

Avant-garde photography in Germany, 1919-1939

Arts & Photography

Coke, Van Deren

Individual Artists

Pantheon Books

A sampling of the experimental photographs of well-known and obscure German artists is accompanied by a discussion of their artistic innovations

AVANTGARDE PHOT GERMNY

Photography & Video

Pantheon

Nordfeldt the Painter

Univ. of New Mexico

Studies the influences of photography on art since the mid-nineteenth century, and describes various methods and techniques used in painting from photographs

The Painter and the Photograph: From Delacroix to Warhol

Univ of New Mexico Pr

FROM THE DAGUERREOTYPE TO THE PRESENT;102 PLATES

Photography in New Mexico: From the daguerreotype to the present

University of New Mexico Press

It has been over forty years since Van Deren Coke made his first trip to Mexico. As these color photographs show, he continues to be fascinated by the rich and complex culture he sees there. He is drawn to the teeming activity of the streets and markets where in even the humblest of objects and the most ordinary of transactions this photographer can find mystery. On recent sojourns in the colonial centers of Mexico City, Patzcuaro, San Miguel de Allende, and Oaxaca, Coke has used his camera to explore his own visceral responses to a culture that is both familiar and exotic to North American eyes. "My major aim," writes Coke, "has been to turn ordinary events, registered at 1/50th of a second, into enigmatic or symbolic images that may tell us something about what goes on in people's minds. All kinds of cultural things are revealed - evidences of the effects of international pop movements and fads, as well as the persistence of cultural inheritances from an often dark past." The sense of enigma is what Coke has captured here so successfully in his rich, saturated colors and humble yet mysterious imagery. In the tradition of Edward Weston, who photographed Mexican folk toys, Van Deren Coke has turned the ordinary into something strangely compelling.

Secular and Sacred: Photographs of Mexico

Book by Coke, Van Deren, Du Pont, Diana C.

Photography: A Facet of Modernism : Photographs from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Du Pont, Diana C.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Hudson Hills Pr

Photography: A Facet of Modernism

Hudson Hills Press

Twentieth-century photographs from Hawaii collections: Essays : Honolulu Academy of Arts, September 13-October 21, 1984

Honolulu Academy of Arts

As with underground rivers there are many different streams of photography that have arisen in Florida. Beginning in the late 1950s, there was a particular group of artists/photographers in the academic institutions in Florida who were committed to very different agendas from those held by more traditional photographic artists. Florida Photogenesis includes discussions of these notable photographers--Van Deren Coke, Jerry Uelsmann, Evon Stretman, Douglas Prince, Oscar Bailey, Todd Walker, Robert W. Fichter, David Ager, Tyler Turkle, Virgil Mirano, George Blakely, and Wallace Wilson--along with a selection of their work, biographies, and an interview with Van Deren Coke.

Florida Photogenesis: The Work of Creative and Experimental Photographers in Florida

Fichter, Robert W.

Florida State Univ

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