The Museum of recent Art (MoMA) collection of Modernist Photography was newly enhanced by the acquisition of the preeminent private collection of Thomas Walther.The Museum of recent Art (MoMA) collection of Modernist Photography was newly enhanced by the acquisition of the preeminent private collection of Thomas Walther. The partial gift, partial purchase includes 328 works by dint of 135 photographers and 50 pictures from Walther's amateur snapshot collection. Walther's collection--assembled across the past 20 years--includes work by dint of virtually every leading European and American photographer of the 1920 and '30 including Berenice Abbott, Herbert Bayer, Karl Blossfeldt Manual Alvarez Bravo, Alvin Langdon Coburn Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz El Lissitzky, Man Ray, Aleksandr Rodchenko, August Sander, Alfred Stieglitz, Umbo (Otto Umbehr) and Edward Weston. Walther's collection focuses upon the diversity of self-conscious creative art as photography evolv from turn-of-the-century Pictorialism to the saucy modernism works and experimental photography--his European experimental photograph of the '20 and '30 being the collection's greatest nerve The Walther collection is the same of MoMA's most important acquisitions--in bounds of quality and scone--in the past brace decades. COPYRIGHT 2001 Visual Studies Workshop |
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