The Grain of the Present: Educational Materials
Overview
Pier 24 Photography offers various ways of learning about and experiencing the works on view in our exhibitions, both in person and online. The supporting content included here is intended to provide our visitors and extended community with an opportunity to learn more about the artists on view and ideas and themes through artist videos, lectures, and suggested publications for additional reading and looking.
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Related Reading
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New Documents: Fifty Years Later (2017)
In 1967, The Museum of Modern Art presented New Documents, a landmark exhibition organized by John Szarkowski that featured Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, singularly important artists of the 20th century who were largely unknown at the time. Taking place on the 50th anniversary (to the day) of the exhibition's opening reception, New Documents: Fifty Years Later brings together three key figures who visited the landmark photography exhibition in 1967—Max Kozloff, Tod Papageorge, and Martha Rosler—and whose critical reflections have shaped our understanding of its legacy.
Exhibition walk-through of New Topographics at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2009)
Photographers Frank Gohlke, John Schott, and Henry Wessel walk through the 2009 restaging of New Topographics at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
"The Unreasonable Apple" by Paul Graham
Originally given as a presentation at the Museum of Modern Art's Photography Forum in February 2010, photographer Paul Graham discusses the profound power of using the world around us as subject matter in photographs.
Ephemera from New Documents
The original press release, wall label, and checklist for New Documents at the Museum of Modern Art in 1967.
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Baltz, Lewis. Lewis Baltz: Texts. Göttingen: Steidl, 2012. Print.
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Dexter, Emma and Thomas Weski. Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th Century Photograph. London: Tate Modern, 2003. Print
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Hermanson Meister, Sarah. Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2017. Print.
ISBN: 978-0870709555
Jenkins, William. New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. Rochester, NY: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. 1975. Print.
Papageorge, Tod. Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography. New York: Aperture, 2011. Print.
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Salvesen, Britt and Alison Nordström. New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; Rochester, NY: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film; Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. Print.
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ROBERT ADAMS
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Adams, Robert. The Place We Live. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. Print.
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DIANE ARBUS
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LEWIS BALTZ
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Becher, Bernd & Hilla. Typologies of Industrial Buildings. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004. Print.
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LEE FRIEDLANDER
Benson, Richard, Lee Friedlander and Peter Galassi. Friedlander. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Print.
ISBN: 978-0870703447
Friedlander, Lee. The Little Screens. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2001. Print.
ISBN: 978-1881337119
EAMONN DOYLE
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LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER
Frazier, LaToya Ruby. The Notion of Family. New York: Aperture, 2014. Print.
ISBN: 978-1597112482
NICHOLAS NIXON
Nixon, Nicholas. The Brown Sisters. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1999. Print.
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Nixon, Nicholas. The Brown Sisters: Thirty-three Years. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. Print.
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Nixon, Nicholas. The Brown Sisters: Forty Years. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2014. Print.
ISBN: 978-0870709531
ED PANAR
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STEPHEN SHORE
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ALEC SOTH
Soth, Alec. From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America. Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center, 2010. Print.
ISBN: 978-3775727501
Soth, Alec. Niagara. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006. Print.
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Soth, Alec. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Göttingen: Steidl; London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. Print.
ISBN: 978-3865217530
Soth, Alec. Songbook. London: MACK, 2015. Print.
ISBN: 978-1910164020
AWOISKA VAN DER MOLEN
van der Molen, Awoiska. Blanco. Amsterdam: Fw:Books, 2017. Print.
ISBN: 978-9490119485
van der Molen, Awoiska. Sequester. Amsterdam: Fw:Books, 2014. Print.
ISBN: 978-9490119294
HENRY WESSEL
Wessel, Henry. Henry Wessel. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. Print.
ISBN: 978-3865213914
Wessel, Henry. Henry Wessel: Five Books: California and the West, Odd Photos, Las Vegas, Real Estate Photographs, Night Walk. Göttingen: Steidl, 2005. Print.
ISBN: 978-3865211330
GARRY WINOGRAND
Rubinfien, Leo. Garry Winogrand. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2013. Print.
ISBN: 978-0300191776
Winogrand, Garry. Women Are Beautiful. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Print.
ISBN: 978-0374292775
VANESSA WINSHIP
Winship, Vanessa. she dances on Jackson. London: Mack, 2013. Print.
ISBN: 9781907946363
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