Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography;Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography

Seattle: Published for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by University of Washington Press, 1982. Softcover. White wraps. 248 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. VG. Item #19725 ISBN: 9780295959351 Drawing some interesting parallels between precisionist painting and modern photography, this volume features the work of Imogen Cunningham, Margaret Bourke-White, Charles Demuth, Preston Dickinson, Ralston Crawford and Berenice Abbott, among others. Published to accompany the exhibition held in San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sept. 9 to Nov. 7, 1982, four other dates. " ... documents the parallel courses followed by American painting and photography from the years just preceding World War I through the forties, a time when a new direction in American painting, identified as Precisionism, was emerging."