From the heart
Subtitle: the power of photography, a collector's choice
By: by Adam D. Weinberg ; preface by Mark Haworth-Booth ; essay by Marianne Wiggins ; biographies of photographers by Peggy Roalf.
Contributors: Gilman, Sondra.; Wiggins, Marianne.; Roalf, Peggy.; Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.; Art Museum of South Texas.; Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art.; Hood Museum of Art.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Art Museum of South Texas; Aperture
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Corpus Christi; [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Gilman, Sondra -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions; Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions; Photograph collections -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions; Photographers -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Power of photography; Collector's choice
Description: Noted for its uncommon vision and aesthetic clarity within a wide reach of the photographic medium, the Sondra Gilman Collection provides an invaluable introduction to the art of photography, to where it has been and where it is going.

Within this volume are some of the finest examples of photography produced over the last one hundred years, from the great masters to the newcomers making their mark. The Preface by Mark Haworth-Booth, curator of photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, discusses the important collections of the past.

Adam Weinberg, curator of the permanent collection for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, comments on the Sondra Gilman Collection in particular, providing themes to help understand the images: instantaneous time versus the eternal, appropriating other works into a picture, taking the common and making it strange, the self divided as one sees oneself in relation to others, and he includes pointers on developing a collector's eye. Marianne Wiggins plays with the idea of the power of photography.

For each of the photographers featured in the book, there is a thumbnail biography and a significant quote by the photographer about the making of pictures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 94) and index.
"The Sondra Gilman Collection"--Jkt.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, Mar. 6-Jun. 7, 1998, the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sep. 7-Nov. 8, 1998, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Jan. 1-Mar. 14, 1999, and at 2 other locations.
Includes "When I buy pictures" by Marianne Moore.