IDAS Y CAOS
ASPECTOS DE LAS VANGUARDIAS FOTOGRAFICAS EN ESPANA
Joan Fontcuberta [concepcion y comisariado]
Joan Fontcuberta [concepcion y comisariado]: IDAS Y CAOS: ASPECTOS DE LAS VANGUARDIAS FOTOGRAFICAS EN ESPANA. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 1984. First edition. Text in Spanish. A near-fine minus softcover book with printed stiff wrappers and minor shelf wear including yellowing. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Cover photocollage by Nicolas de Lekuona.
9.75 x 10.75 softcover book with 194 pages and 171 duotone, b/w and color photographs. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name: Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Paseo de Recoletos, 22, Madrid [Junio-Julio 1984]. Exhition traveled as IDAS & CHAOS Trends in Spanish Photography 1920 - 1945 to the International Center of Photography in New York, sponsored by The US-Spanish Joint Commitee for Cultural and Educational Cooperation.
IDAS: He of penetrating vision. CHAOS : god of confusion and disorder.
From the book: "Aporta . . . un corpus de trabajos representativos del fertil periodo que precedio a la guerra civil y prepara asi el terreno para otras etapas de la historia de la fotografia espanola."
Contents
A Modo de Introduccion by Joan Fontcuberta
Fotografia 1900-1940: Temas y Tendencias by Marie-Loup Sougez
La "Nueva Objetividad" by Joan Fontcuberta
"Nueva Vision" y Fotografia Experimental by Joan Fontcuberta
Fotomontaje, Cartelismo y Publicidad by Carlos Canovas
El Pictorialismo by Marta Gili
Retrato, Documentacion Social y Fotoperiodismo by Cristina Zelich
Catalogo de Obras
Biografias by Roser Barnich
Tabla Cronologica by marie-Loup Sougez
Glosario Tecnico
Bibliografia
Photographers and artists include Josep Sala, Aurelio Grasa, Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Rodchenko, Walter Peterhans, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Emmanuel Sougez, Paul Outerbridge, Andre Kertesz, Bill Brandt, Frantisek Drtikol, Emili Godes, Esteve Terradas, Joaquim Gomis, Nicolas de Lekuona, Joaquim Pla Janini, Josep Renau, Pere Catala Pic, Josep Masana, Emili Vila, Antonio Campana, Joan Porqueras, Agusti Centelles, Alfonso, Josep Pons Girbau, Tomas Monserrat, Luis Escobar, Jalon Angel and Jose Suarez.