Full Description
The catalogue for a two-part exhibition that presents more than sixty compelling photographs—including prints by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott—exploring major themes in modern photography, donated by leading photography specialist and dealer Howard Greenberg.
The history of photography concerns its materiality as much as its imagery. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz is firmly engaged with this history of reinvention. Nearly half of the collection came to the museum from a single source: photography specialist and dealer Howard Greenberg. On the Street and in the Studio documents the enormous contribution made by Greenberg in building a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography at the Dorsky Museum. The catalogue includes an essay by curator Daniel Belasco that surveys the strengths and characteristics of the collection. An interview with Howard Greenberg sheds light on how he collects photographs and chooses to present them to institutions. The portfolio section features images of both the photographic images and reverse sides of nineteen prints in the collection by Eugène Atget, Berenice Abbott, James Van Der Zee, Margaret Bourke-White, and others, revealing how there is as much relevant information on the back as on the picture itself, an insight made available for students and the general public.
Contents
Foreword
Sara J. Pasti
A Collection Of Collections
Daniel Belasco
Visible History: Interview with Howard Greenberg
Portfolio
On The Street
Jacob Riis
Eugene Atget
Berenice Abbott
Josef Sudek
Todd Webb
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Paul Wolff
Weegee
Morris Huberland
Bruce Davidson
Allen Ginsberg
In The Studio
James Van Der Zee
George Platt Lynes
Carl Van Vechten
Margaret Bourke-White
Russell Lee
W. Eugene Smith
Eve Arnold
Arnold Newman
Exhibition Checklist
Acknowledgements
