A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame

A history of twentieth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA. The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame is considered to be one of the finest university art museums in America. Its permanent collection of nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century photography comprises 10,000-plus pieces. This first volume in a two volume catalogue of the collection presents 100 key works from the 20th-century, including works by Jacque-Henri Lartigue, Edward Weston, Alexander Rodchenko, August Sander, Berenice Abbot, Robert Capa, Irving Penn, Larry Clark and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among many others. AUTHOR: David Acton is Milly and Fritz Kaeser curator of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. Among his exhibitions and publications is The Stamp of Genius: Abstract Expressionist Prints (2001). SELLING POINTS: . A first-rate collection covering photographers from the early 20th-century (Edward Steichen, Eugene Atget), through mid-century (Robert Capa, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams) to present day ( Mike Smith, Deborah Luster, Joel Sternfeld) . Provides historical context, brief biographies, and a glossary of photographic terms. . Recent acquisitions include images by Eugene Atget, Eadweard Muybridge, Timothy O'Sullivan, Doris Ulmann, Frederick Sommer and Lauren Greenfield. . A second volume, 19th-century photographs is planned for 2020. 150 colour images