Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia

240 Pages·2014·33.568 MB·English

by  Katherine A. Bussard

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UNFAMILIAR STREETS

UNFAMILIAR STREETS
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF RICHARD AVEDON,
CHARLES MOORE, MARTHA ROSLER,
AND PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA
Katherine A. Bussard
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
Publication of this book has been aided by grants from the Wyeth Foundation
for American Art Publication Fund of the College Art Association, from the
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and from the Minor White
Photography Publications Fund of the Princeton University Art Museum.
Copyright © 2014 by Katherine A. Bussard.
All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Unfamiliar streets : the photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha
Rosler, and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia / Katherine A. Bussard.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-300-19226-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Street photography. I. Bussard,
Katherine A. II. Avedon, Richard, photographer. III. Rosler, Martha, 1943- ,
photographer. IV. DiCorcia, Philip-Lorca photographer.
TR659.8.U54 2014
778.9 4—dce23 2013023365
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).
TORO NOM MONS Anou2 aL
Frontispiece: Charles Moore, Downtown Birmingham, Alabama (fig. 43)
Jacket illustrations: (front) Philip-Lorca diCorcia, New York (fig. 78); (back) Richard
Avedon, Renée, The New Look of Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1947 (fig. 12),
Martha Rosler, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems (detail 10a) (fig. 61),
and Charles Moore, Downtown Birmingham, Alabama (fig. 30).
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
INTRODUCTION
RICHARD AVEDON BETTER THAN REAL
CHARLES MOORE 10 BE INVOLVED
MARTHA ROSLER A WALK DOWN THE BOWERY
PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA ANALOGUES OF REALITY 13h)
AFTERWORD 190
192
NOTES
213
INDEX
219
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
For my parents, always