The Photography Of Charles Sheeler

Essays by leading authorities on the artist's work accompany a stunning collection of nearly two hundred photographs by modernist American photographer Charles Sheeler, offering a landmark retrospective of of the work of the influential master of twentieth-century photography. 15,000 first printing.

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form explores how Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), a pioneering American modernist, further developed his signature Precisionist style during his years working as a fashion photographer at Condé Nast.

Charles Sheeler (1886-1965) was one of the most noted American painters and photographers to embrace the iconography of the machine. But was he high priest or heretic in the religion of mass production and technology that dominated his era? Karen Lucic considers this intriguing question while telling us Sheeler's story, and showing us how Sheeler produced images of extraordinary aesthetic power that provocatively confirmed America's technological and industrial prestige in vivid detail.