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The last photographic heroes : American photographers of the sixties and seventies / Gilles Mora.

By:

Mora, Gilles, 1945- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Abrams, 2007Edition: English language editionDescription: 191 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0810993740
9780810993747

Related works:

Translation of: Mora, Gilles, 1945- Photographie Amé́ricanie de 1958 à 1981

Subject(s):

Photographers -- United States -- Biography

DDC classification:

770.922 22

LOC classification:

TR139 .M57 2007

Online resources:

Summary: "The photography that Americans invented in the 1960s and ?70s was as fresh and vital as their music. Photographers of those years believed in their medium?s unlimited capacities of expression. Between the publication of Robert Frank?s The Americans (1958) and the coming of post-modernism, the photographers featured in this book embarked on their own personal quests. Whether they roamed the world, like Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, or sought out its dark corners, like Larry Clark and Nan Goldin, they shared a fierce devotion to their medium and its unique qualities. The generation that created this work knew it was remarkable. Today, with Gilles Mora as a guide, we can look back on it with even greater appreciation, since we know that these were indeed the last photographic heroes. Also includes work by Joel Meyerowitz, William Eggleston, and many others."--Publisher description.

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"Translated from the French by Nicholas Elliott ... published simultaneously in French under the title La photographie Amé́ricanie de 1958 à 1981: the last photographic heroes by Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2007"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190).

"The photography that Americans invented in the 1960s and ?70s was as fresh and vital as their music. Photographers of those years believed in their medium?s unlimited capacities of expression. Between the publication of Robert Frank?s The Americans (1958) and the coming of post-modernism, the photographers featured in this book embarked on their own personal quests. Whether they roamed the world, like Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, or sought out its dark corners, like Larry Clark and Nan Goldin, they shared a fierce devotion to their medium and its unique qualities. The generation that created this work knew it was remarkable. Today, with Gilles Mora as a guide, we can look back on it with even greater appreciation, since we know that these were indeed the last photographic heroes. Also includes work by Joel Meyerowitz, William Eggleston, and many others."--Publisher description.

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