Nathan Lyons: Selected Essays, Lectures, and Interviews

Herausgeber: McDonald, Jessica S.

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Produktbeschreibung

Nathan Lyons is the first comprehensive examination of this visionary photographer, curator, theorist, and educator, one of the most important voices in American photography and a central force in the explosive growth of the field over the past five decad

Produktdetails

• Harry Ransom Center Photograph
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 301
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 188mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9780292737716
• ISBN-10: 0292737718
• Artikelnr.: 35055284

Autorenporträt

Jessica S. McDonald is Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Center. She is the U.S. reviews editor for the journal Photography & Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreword by David Coleman
2. Acknowledgments
3. Introduction: Persistence of Vision
4. Part I: Artist
* Nathan Lyons
“Comment” in Under the Sun: The Abstract Art of Camera Vision, 1960
* Nathan Lyons
Statement in Notations in Passing, 1970: Photographs by Nathan Lyons
from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1971
* James Borcoman
Introduction to Notations in Passing, 1970: Photographs by Nathan
Lyons from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
1971
* Penny Cousineau
From a review of Notations in Passing: Visualized by Nathan Lyons,
1976
* Thomas Dugan
From “Nathan Lyons”, 1979
* Bob Rogers
From “Messages in a Bottle”, 1986
* Adam D. Weinberg
Preface to Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! Photographs by Nathan
Lyons, 1999
* Vicki Goldberg
“Subtle Juxtapositions from a Diffident Force for Change”, 2000
* Keith A. Smith
“Homage to Nathan”, 2003
* Leroy F. Searle
“Concerning the Power of the Preposition: The Photographs of Nathan
Lyons”, 2004
* Marvin Bell
“The Book of the Dead Man (Sign Language)”, 2011
5. Part II: Curator, Critic, Theorist
* Nathan Lyons
“To the Spirit of a Time: In Consideration”, 1960
* Nathan Lyons
Foreword to Photography ’63: An International Exhibition, 1963
* Nathan Lyons
Foreword to Photography ’64: An Invitational Exhibition, 1964
* Nathan Lyons
Introduction to Aaron Siskind: Photographer, 1965
* Nathan Lyons
From an unpublished interview with Paul Strand, 1965
* Nathan Lyons
“Critic’s Choice: ‘Meaning Must Come from the Picture Itself’", 1965
* Nathan Lyons
From an unpublished conversation with Garry Winogrand and Simpson
Kalisher, 1966
* Nathan Lyons
Introduction to Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology,
1966
* Nathan Lyons
Introduction to Toward a Social Landscape, 1966
* Nathan Lyons
“Photography and the Picture Experience”, 1967
* Nathan Lyons
Introduction to Photography in the Twentieth Century, 1967
* Nathan Lyons
Introduction to The Persistence of Vision, 1967
* William D. Tammeus
“Focused on Protest”, 1968
* Nathan Lyons
Introduction to Vision and Expression, 1969
* Nathan Lyons
"Collecting Photographs as Picture Resources for Research", 1975
* Nathan Lyons
“Sequential Considerations”, 1975
* Nathan Lyons
“Les Krims”, 1976
* Nathan Lyons
“The Photographic Sequence”, 1980
* Candida Finkel
From “Photography as Modern Art: The Influence of Nathan Lyons and
John Szarkowski on the Public’s Acceptance of Photography as Fine
Art”, 1981
* Robert Hirsch
From “Nathan Lyons on the Snapshot”, 1992
* Joel Eisinger
From Trace and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in
the Modernist Period, 1995
* Anne Wilkes Tucker
From “Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography”, 2007
6. Part III: Educator
* Nathan Lyons
From “The Workshop Idea in Photography”, 1961
* Nathan Lyons
“A Joint Program in Photographic Studies / State University of New
York at Buffalo & George Eastman House”, 1968
* Barbara Confino
From “‘Photography Is Not an Art: It Is a Model of Perception‘”, 1973
* Nathan Lyons
“Triangulating Misology: ‘. . . To Mistake the Trappings of
Intellectual Authority for Its Substance’”, 1979
* Joan Fontcuberta
From “Interview with Nathan Lyons”, 1990
* Maria Antonella Pelizzari
From “Nathan Lyons: An Interview”, 1997
* Anne Wilkes Tucker, Willis Hartshorn, Mark Klett, and James Borcoman
From “Testimonials from Students of the Visual Studies Workshop”,
1999
7. Nathan Lyons: Chronology
8. Selected Bibliography
9. Index