{"product_id":"the-photographs-of-homer-page-the-guggenheim-year-new-york-194950","title":"The Photographs of Homer Page: The Guggenheim Year: New York  1949-50","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis stunning volume represents a major photo-historical discovery: it is the first book on Homer Page (19181985)  a brilliant but overlooked photographer active in the late 1940s and 50s. It focuses on his previously unpublished photographs of New York taken while a Guggenheim Fellow from 1949 to 1950. First recognized by Ansel Adams in 1944  California-born Page exhibited in a major show of young artists at the Museum of Modern Art  New York  in 1946. Four years later  he was invited to participate in MoMAs seminal photography symposium  alongside 10 other prominent photographers  including Walker Evans  Irving Penn  and Aaron Siskind.  In photographs that echo those of Walker Evans  Dorothea Lange  and Robert Frank  Page uniquely synthesized documentary and artistic concerns. His work as a Guggenheim Fellowwhich depicts pedestrians in motion  friends and family members conversing  commuters  children playing  political rallies and protests  and isolated figures resting and watchingoffers a fascinating look at New York during the late 1940s and represents the culmination of Pages most important work.  The Photographs of Homer Page features a plate section of these compelling and often poignant images together with texts by the artist  a bibliography  and an essay by noted scholar Keith F. Davis examining Pages life and career including his connections with Lange  Nancy and Beaumont Newhall  and Edouard Steichen.  Distributed for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art  Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (February 14June 7  2009)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986668646453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300154437","price":105.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300154436.jpg?v=1770913163","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-photographs-of-homer-page-the-guggenheim-year-new-york-194950","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}