Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China

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Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China by Wu Hung and Christopher Phillips. Published by Smart Museum Of Art and The University of Chicago, 2004. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This catalog was prepared to accompany the traveling exhibition that started at the International Center of Photography and the Asia Society in New York over the summer of 2004. Edited by Wu Hung and Christopher Phillips. With contributions by Melissa Chiu, Lisa Corrin, and Stephanie Smith. Artists biographies. Illustrated in color and black & white. Checklist with 130 works catalogued. The book is inscribed by Patricia Schoenfeld to Herbert Kasper who was an American fashion designer known as Kasper. He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at the Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After World War II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was also a famous art collector. He was an avid art collector, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. Patricia Schoenfeld was born and raised in New York City and has had a long and varied career in the visual and performing arts. As an accomplished ceramic artist, her work has been included in many private collections and exhibited in galleries throughout Connecticut and New York. In 1974, she began working with Cornell Capa to establish the International Center of Photography. As a founding staff member of ICP, she launched the book store and the publications department, began the membership and intern programs, and assisted with public relations and corporate memberships. After working at ICP for eight years she joined ABC Video Enterprises where she helped inaugurate the ARTS cable service. Upon her retirement in 1987 she joined the ICP Board of Trustees where she and other Board members helped cultivate ICP into the organization it is today. NPT Books, a division of Trent Antiques, has a large collection of used and out of print books on art, architecture, decoration and antiques with a focus on 1st editions, signed and limited editions.

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Height: 11.25 in (28.58 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

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Paper

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

21st Century

Date of Manufacture:

2004

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