Authors:Geoffrey Batchen, Tobia Bezzola, Roxana Marcoci, Roxa
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: sculpture, photography, original
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2010-08-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0870707574
ISBN-13: 9780870707575

Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of documenting, redefining and disseminating works of art. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up and lighting, as well as through expostfacto techniques of dark room manipulation, collage, montage and assemblage, artists not only interpret the works they record but create stunning reinventions of them. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the o