Americans, 1940-2006
Subtitle: Amerika : die soziale Landschaft 1940 bis 2006 : Meisterwerke amerikanischer fotografie = America : the social landscape from 1940 until 2006 : masterpieces of American photography
By: Kurator = curated by Peter Weiermair ; Herausgeber = edited by Kunsthalle Wien, Peter Weiermair, Gerald Matt.
Contributors: Weiermair, Peter.; Matt, Gerald.; Kunsthalle Wien.
Publisher: Damiani; Kunsthalle Wien; Brand: Damiani
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bologna, Italy; [Wien]
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9788889431689
Subjects: Portrait photography -- United States -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Pictorial works; Exhibitions.
Other titles: Amerika :; America :
Description: A bakers' dozen of the best photographers of the past hundred years, from Helen Levitt and Gordon Parks to Nan Goldin and Ryan McGinley, are brought together here in a series of portfolios expanding on Robert Frank's Americans. Together they consider generations of social upheavals, crises, and shifts in U.S. society, responding to societal problems with attitudes from concerned to ecstatic. Helen Levitt's East Village and Bruce Davidson's are the same, and yet nothing alike, as are Richard Avedon's Texas and Rosalind Solomon's New Orleans, Diane Arbus's periphery and Lee Friedlander's loneliness at the center of the world, Peter Hujar's transsexuals and Larry Clark's boys.
Notes: Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Wien, November 3, 2006-February 4, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and German.