THE BOOK OF 101 BOOKS - Andrew Roth
The 101 Books is edited by Andrew Roth and includes over 500 full-color plates with essays by eight renowned authors: Vince Aletti, Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daid Moriyama, Shelley Rice, David Levi Strauss and Neville Wakefield.
Art historian Shelley Rice, in her illuminating 15,000-word essay "When Objects Dream", reviews the history of twentieth-century photography through the book. Richard Benson, Dean of the School of the Arts at Yale University and internationally renowned expert on photographic printing, follows the evolution of the art of printing from photogravure to new digital technologies in his 5,000-word essay "Photography in Print". May Castleberry, independent curator and editor for the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, describes the production process for the reprint of Steichen's classic children's book, The First Picture Book, and discusses the challenge of presenting photographic books in a museum exhibition in her essay "The Presence of The Past". Art dealer and book publisher Jeffrey Fraenkel offers a personal account of the many pitfalls of book publishing in his essay "A Choice of Titles". Contemporary Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama recounts the construction of his avant-garde publication Bye, Bye Photography, Dear (1972) in his essay "Reflections". Neville Wakefield, art critic, theorist and curator of contemporary art, analyzes Richard Prince's radical picture book Adult Comedy Action Drama (1995) in "Stand Up Comedy and the Horizontal Sublime". Vince Aletti, art editor at the Village Voice, and David Levi Strauss, art critic and teacher, each write an insightful 300-500 word essay to accompany the 101 books.
Published by PPP Editions, 2001
308 pages
25 x 30.5 cm
ISBN: 978-0967077444
The 101 Books is edited by Andrew Roth and includes over 500 full-color plates with essays by eight renowned authors: Vince Aletti, Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daid Moriyama, Shelley Rice, David Levi Strauss and Neville Wakefield.
Art historian Shelley Rice, in her illuminating 15,000-word essay "When Objects Dream", reviews the history of twentieth-century photography through the book. Richard Benson, Dean of the School of the Arts at Yale University and internationally renowned expert on photographic printing, follows the evolution of the art of printing from photogravure to new digital technologies in his 5,000-word essay "Photography in Print". May Castleberry, independent curator and editor for the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, describes the production process for the reprint of Steichen's classic children's book, The First Picture Book, and discusses the challenge of presenting photographic books in a museum exhibition in her essay "The Presence of The Past". Art dealer and book publisher Jeffrey Fraenkel offers a personal account of the many pitfalls of book publishing in his essay "A Choice of Titles". Contemporary Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama recounts the construction of his avant-garde publication Bye, Bye Photography, Dear (1972) in his essay "Reflections". Neville Wakefield, art critic, theorist and curator of contemporary art, analyzes Richard Prince's radical picture book Adult Comedy Action Drama (1995) in "Stand Up Comedy and the Horizontal Sublime". Vince Aletti, art editor at the Village Voice, and David Levi Strauss, art critic and teacher, each write an insightful 300-500 word essay to accompany the 101 books.
Published by PPP Editions, 2001
308 pages
25 x 30.5 cm
ISBN: 978-0967077444
The 101 Books is edited by Andrew Roth and includes over 500 full-color plates with essays by eight renowned authors: Vince Aletti, Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daid Moriyama, Shelley Rice, David Levi Strauss and Neville Wakefield.
Art historian Shelley Rice, in her illuminating 15,000-word essay "When Objects Dream", reviews the history of twentieth-century photography through the book. Richard Benson, Dean of the School of the Arts at Yale University and internationally renowned expert on photographic printing, follows the evolution of the art of printing from photogravure to new digital technologies in his 5,000-word essay "Photography in Print". May Castleberry, independent curator and editor for the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, describes the production process for the reprint of Steichen's classic children's book, The First Picture Book, and discusses the challenge of presenting photographic books in a museum exhibition in her essay "The Presence of The Past". Art dealer and book publisher Jeffrey Fraenkel offers a personal account of the many pitfalls of book publishing in his essay "A Choice of Titles". Contemporary Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama recounts the construction of his avant-garde publication Bye, Bye Photography, Dear (1972) in his essay "Reflections". Neville Wakefield, art critic, theorist and curator of contemporary art, analyzes Richard Prince's radical picture book Adult Comedy Action Drama (1995) in "Stand Up Comedy and the Horizontal Sublime". Vince Aletti, art editor at the Village Voice, and David Levi Strauss, art critic and teacher, each write an insightful 300-500 word essay to accompany the 101 books.
Published by PPP Editions, 2001
308 pages
25 x 30.5 cm
ISBN: 978-0967077444
