Time travelers: photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection

Abstract

"Highlighting a selection of extraordinary photographs spanning more than a century of the medium's history, Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection presents images that transport viewers across space and time. Reflecting a multitude of styles, approaches, and processes, the works in Time Travelers date from photography's earliest years to our present moment. Alongside works by artists such as Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Julia Margaret Cameron, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Hiro, Robert Mapplethorpe, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Edward Steichen, the publication also features vernacular photographs, including personal snapshots and press images." -- Publisher's website.

Contents

"Some photographing episodes": An introduction / Lucy Gallun -- "From life, freshwater": Julia Margaret Cameron's photograph of Cyllena Wilson / Kaitlin Booher -- Lucas Samaras's Tesseract self-portrait: On seams and stitches in Panorama / Samuel Allen -- Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's Hidden worlds / Rachel Rosin -- "It's a whopper": Edward Steichen's large-scale photographs / Lee Ann Daffner -- Image production/Aircraft production / Lucy Gallun.