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Stories from the Camera
Reflections on the Photograph
Edited by Michele M. Penhall
Preface by Kymberly Pinder
Contributions by Thomas F. Barrow, Geoffrey Batchen, Van Deren Coke, Sarah Greenough, Christopher Kaltenbach, Robert ParkeHarrison, Beaumont Newhall, Eugenia Parry, Meridel Rubenstein, Richard Rudisill, April M. Watson, Carla Williams and Joel-Peter Witkin
Published by: University of New Mexico Press
The remarkable photography collection of the University of New Mexico Art Museum owes its unique character and quality to the directors, curators, scholars, and artists who have taught, worked, and studied at the museum and in the university's Department of Art and Art History. In this indispensable book, these distinguished scholars and artists reflect on the pictures from the collection that hold significance to them. Through their own professional and artistic practice, they represent different generations of aesthetic voices and intellectual directions.
As one of the earliest collegiate institutions to begin collecting photography, the University of New Mexico Art Museum holds a stunning array of images that span photography's 175-year history. In addition to iconic works by famous photographers, this book also features less familiar but equally masterful pictures. Together, these essays represent a unique history of photography and this renowned museum.
Michele M. Penhall is the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the UNM Art Museum and has organized exhibitions that address historical issues and projects that speak to contemporary ideas. She has written on twentieth-century Latin American photography and twenty-first-century artists.
Thomas F. Barrow is professor emeritus of photography at the University of New Mexico. He has served as assistant director of the George Eastman House and director of the UNM Art Museum. His work is in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the George Eastman House, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Meridel Rubenstein is a visiting associate professor in the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. With an extensive career since the 1970s, her exhibitions and collections have included the Louvre, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the National Museum of American Art, among others. She is the author of Belonging: From Los Alamos to Vietnam, Photoworks and Installations. She divides her time between her studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a visiting associate professorship at the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
"This collection . . . asks us to consider the wondrous variety and complexity of the photographic image, as well as our shared photographic narrative. The breadth and expanse of the collected ideas have an equally farsighted power, and their insights could change the way you see photographs long after closing the book's cover."--Journal of the Print World