<p>Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition opening at The Museum of Modern Art and travelling until 1991, this is a publication of White's work using the artist's extensive personal archive bequeathed to Princeton University on his death.</p>

Minor White: The Eye That Shapes

Arts & Photography

Peter C. Bunnell

Photography & Video

Princeton University / The Art Museum

<p>The Berlin Painter was the name given by British classicist and art historian Sir John Beazley to an otherwise anonymous Athenian red-figure vase-painter. The artist's long career extended from about 500 B.C. well into the 460s, and his elegant renderings of daily life and mythological stories offer invaluable insight into the social, political, religious, and artistic workings of early 5th-century Athens. Since the first published identification of the artist in 1911, the Berlin Painter's oeuvre has grown to nearly 350 works, both complete pots and fragments, making him one of the best-known artists of his kind. This lavishly illustrated publication features nine essays by leading scholars who explore the artist's work, milieu, influence, and legacy, as well as the role of connoisseurship in art-historical scholarship. With an updated catalogue raisonné that includes many newly attributed works, it is the definitive book on this seminal artist.</p>

The Florence Gould Foundation Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photographs At Princeton

The Art Museum, Princeton University

Photography at Princeton: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting and Teaching the History of Photography

Museum

Exhibition monograph. One of the most important collections of landscape photography ever assembled in one museum. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 15 through June 3, 2003. Presents a selection from the Complete Set of 100 landscape photographs acquired by the late philanthropist John B. Ellitt specifically for the Museum, to which he bequeathed the bulk of his personal collection of photographs, Primitive and American art, and Chinese calligraphy. To judge from the examples in this catalog, it is not surprising why Elliott was a devoted collector and admirer of Edward Ranney's landscape photographs. Ranney took photographs that had "an essential connection to the real world, a world in which the legacy of past cultures and their places of sacred significance is evident. Each of his photographs embodies a part of the past that rises up and stimulates intellectual curiosity and visual sensibility" (Peter C. Bunnell). There were two decisive moments in Ranney's life: His stint in Peru as a Fulbright Fellow and his subsequent decision to become a photographer. He cast himself in the mold of such figures as Robert Adams, William Clift, Robert Frank, David Plowden, Paul Strand, Minor White, Edward Weston, Paul Caponigro and Thomas Joshua Cooper. The last two (and their antecedents, Timothy O'Sullivan and Carleton Watkins) became the most abiding influences on his work. Ranney brought his remarkable scholarly and artistic talents to brilliant use: He mastered the Spanish language and helped bring Peruvian photography to the attention of the West, notably the work of the great Martin Chambi. He completed and published three major projects: "Stonework of the Maya", "Monuments of the Incas" and "Prairie Passage", from which the Elliott Collection is drawn. © 2005, ModernRare.com

Edward Ranney Photographs: The John B. Elliott Collection

Princeton University Art Museum

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