The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) collection of Modernist Photography was recently enhanced by the acquisition of the preeminent private collection of Thomas Walther. The partial gift, partial purchase includes 328 works by 135 photographers and 50 pictures from Walther's amateur snapshot collection. Walther's collection--assembled over the past 20 years--includes work by virtually every leading European and American photographer of the 1920s and '30s, including Berenice Abbott Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. , Herbert Bayer Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) was an Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect. Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidthammer in Linz. Leaving the workshop to study at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony, he became interested in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus , Karl Blossfeldt Karl Blossfeldt (1865 – 1932) was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher, and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany, at the turn of the century. He worked with a camera he designed himself. , Manual Alvarez Bravo, Alvin Langdon Coburn Alvin Langdon Coburn (11 January 1882 - 23 November 1966) was a pioneering photographer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he worked in Britain, becoming a a British subject in 1932 and building a house in Harlech in North Wales where he lived 1918-45, before moving to , Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, El Lissitzky, Man Ray, Aleksandr Rodchenko, August Sander, Alfred Stieglitz, Umbo umbo /um·bo/ (um´bo) pl. umbo´nes [L.] 1. a rounded elevation. 2. the slight projection at the center of the outer surface of the tympanic membrane. um·bo n. (Otto Umbehr) and Edward Weston. Walther's collection focuses on the diversity of self-conscious creative art as photography evolved from turn-of-the-century Pictorialism to the bold modernism works and experimental photography--his European experimental photograph of the '20s and '30s being the collection's greatest strength. The Walther collection is one of MoMA's most important acquisitions--in terms of quality and scone--in the past two decades. |
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