Discovery & Recognition 1981 Friends of Photography Untitled 25 Ex Libris

First edition. Softcover. 55 pages. Introduction by Alinder. A collection of photographically illustrated articles on Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander, Mark Klett, Wright Morris, John B. Greene and Imogen Cunningham. A clean and tight near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear.

Includes Harry Callahan's distinguished career in photography, "Lee Friedlander, Photographer of 1980," Mark Klett, the 1980 Ferguson Grant recipient, Beaumont Newhall on John B. Green, Anita Ventura Mozley on Imogen Cunningham's beginnings, and more. 9 x 12 inches.

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. 

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