Title:
Innovation/imagination : 50 years of Polaroid photography
Author:
Hitchcock, Barbara, writer of introduction.
ISBN:
9780810943582
Publication Information:
New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the Friends of Photography, 1999.
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 27 cm
General Note:
Exhibition of selections from the Polaroid Collection held May 1999 at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography in San Francisco.
Includes photography by Ansel Adams, Shelby Lee Adams, Weston Andrews, Dawoud Bey, Christian Boltanski, Gloria DeFilipps Brush, Robb Buitenman, Nancy Burson, Paul Caponigro, Ellen Carey, William Christenberry, Chuck Close, Eileen Cowin, Barbara Crane, Judy Dater, John Divola, Anita Douthat, Robert Frank, Masahisa Fukase, Tyrone Georgiou, Ralph Gibson, Jim Goldberg, Debra Goldman, Eberhard Grames, Philippe Halsman, Werner Hannappel, Robert Heinecken, Béatrice Helg, Gottfried Helnwein, Rick Hock, David Hockney, Jeff Hoone & Carrie Mae Weems, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Frederic Karikese, Barbara Kasten, Sean Kernan, Mark Klett, Jean-Luc Koenig, David Levinthal, Ken Matsubara, Davide Mosconi, Arnold Newman, Helmut Newton, Sandro Oramas, Olivia Parker, Rosamond Wolff Purcell, Robert Rauschenberg, Eugene Richards, Lucas Samaras, Fazal Sheikh, Jeffery Silverthorne, Bert Stern, Jim Stone, Silvia Taccani, Rei Taka, Deborah Turbeville, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Brett Weston, Jo Whaley, Minor White, Joel-Peter Witkin, John Wood, and Elisabet Zeilon.
Contents:
The Polaroid Collection / Introduction / Edwin Land's Polaroid: "A New Eye" / Photographs -- Polaroid and the Artist -- Polaroid Milestones.
Abstract:
The works in Innovation/Imagination are all selected from the Polaroid Collection. Included here are more than 80 colorplates of Polaroids by such diverse artists as Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Nancy Burson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chuck Close, Lucas Samaras, and William Wegman. Their photographs display the artistic inventiveness and technical achievement made possible by Polaroid film and present an overview of the past 50 years in photography. The photographs are accompanied by an essay placing Polaroid in historical context, and comments by the photographers themselves offer insights into how Polaroid has affected their art. A chronology provides more information on important Polaroid achievements.
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