Publisher's Description
Photography, and the political ideology of designing exhibitions
This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography
as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the
spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the
spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; the trajectory
of utopian architectural-photographic space and from
post-Revolutionary Russia to America during the Cold War. This
space documents the exhibitions designed by Lissitzky (Pressa, Film
und Foto, etc); German, Italian and Spanish exhibitions in the
1930s, and exhibitions in MOMA during the Second World War.
TEXTS BY Roland Barthes, Herbert Bayer,
Benjamin H.D.Buchloh, El Lissitzky, Jordana
Mendelson, Beaumont Newhall, Christopher
Phillips, Ulrich Pohlmann, Jorge Ribalta,
Vanessa Rocco, Rosalinde Sartoti, Edward
Steichen
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