
The Photographer in the Garden
Sarah Anne McNear
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Description
From Versailles to the home vegetable garden, from worlds imagined by artists to food production recorded by journalists, The Photographer in the Garden traces the garden's rich history in photography and delights readers with spectacular photographs. An informative essay from curator Jamie M. Allen and commentaries by Sarah Anne McNear broaden our understanding of photography and explore our unique relationship with nature through the garden. This is a sublime book bringing together some of history's most stunning photography.
Product Details
Publisher | Aperture |
Publish Date | April 15, 2018 |
Pages | 256 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781597113731 |
Dimensions | 9.8 X 11.6 X 1.0 inches | 3.9 pounds |
About the Author
Jamie M. Allen is associate curator in the department of photography at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. Allen's work at the Eastman Museum focuses on exhibition development and care of the collection. She is the author of Picturing America's National Parks (Aperture, 2015). Allen lives in Rochester, New York.
Sarah Anne McNear has over thirty years of experience in museums and cultural nonprofits, with a specialization in photography and community-based art education. She has held positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Allentown Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, where she was the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Fellow in Photography. Most recently, McNear served as the deputy director of Aperture Foundation and the deputy director of the 92nd Street Y's School of the Arts, as well as the director of its Art Center. Prior to these roles, she was director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. McNear is the author of several books on photography and has served on advisory committees for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Art in Architecture Program for the U.S. General Services Administration, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She is currently a board member of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, and Aperture Foundation. McNear lives in New York City.
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