John Pfahl Altered Landscapes Friends of Photography Untitled 26 Friedus Gallery

Description: John Pfahl Altered Landscapes Friends of Photography Untitled 26. With Friedus Gallery. Friends of Photography / Robert Freidus Gallery [1981]. Soft cover, 56 pages. Untitled 26: This publication is the 26th in a series of publications on serious photography by The Friends of Photography. [From Introduction] One of the concepts regarding photography and the making of photographs that has taken the longest to be realized and appreciated is that of intentional creation. Early in this century the pictorialists began to articulate the inherent linkage between the act of photographing, the sense of responsibility that falls on photographers because of their pictures and the sensuality of the pictures themselves. These are the principles that have become the fundamental bases of modern photography. Further, photographs that were once derided as illustrative are today not so disrespected because this term is no longer reserved to describe work reinforcing traditional regimes. It now refers to that providing an illustration or a kind of mechanical for the activity Edward Hall identifies above. The art of successful photography has once again come to be concerned with artifice and, like the best writers of literature, the goal of a contemporary photographer like John Pfahl is not to turn viewers into rereaders but into readers. John Pfahl was born in New York in 1939 and grew up in rural New Jersey. He began his interest in photography at Syracuse University, where he was a student enrolled in a program of advertising and graphic design. Importantly, his earliest work was in color. Following two years in the Army he worked for commercial photographers in New York City and in California. Good used condition. Light shelf wear commensurate with age. Bumping to upper corners. See images. From the Library Estate of Photographer Barbara Crane Barbara Crane was a pioneering internationally renowned art photographer and influential educator who explored photography as a vehicle for creative expression for over sixty years. A forerunner in experimental and abstract photography, Crane explored numerous photographic processes throughout her extensive career. The result is an ongoing evolving body of conceptually consistent work, varied in approach and experimental in style. An early investigator of repetition and deconstruction of visual information, she experimented extensively with sequences, grids, scrolls, and large modular murals. Crane worked in many formats and materials ranging from intimate in size to large scale, utilizing such diverse photographic approaches as platinum-palladium, Polaroid processes, image transfers, gelatin silver and digital. Born in Chicago in 1928, Crane studied at Mills College in California, completing her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History at New York University, and in 1966 received her Master of Science Degree from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She began teaching photography in 1964 and in 1967 joined the faculty at the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago, retiring from teaching in 1995 as Professor Emerita of Photography. See my other auctions of fine and rare photography catalogs, art and more!

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