The Shape of Things : Photographs from Robert B. Menschel

A collection of 60 remarkable photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Ranging from the contemporary artist Andreas Gursky to William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the medium’s founding figures, these works collectively tell the story of photography from its beginnings, but upend and newly illuminate that story through their arrangement in reverse chronological order.

Each image is the subject of a brief, elegant text. The book borrows its title from a work by Carrie Mae Weems, one of the many great photographs that Menschel has contributed to the collection

Details

• Author: Quentin Bajac, Chief Curator of Photography, MoMA
• Hardcover: 152 pages | 63 black and white and 6 colour illustrations
• Date published: November 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN: 978-1633450226
• Product Dimensions: 28.0 x 24.4 cm