Encounters - 9780803245181

EncountersPhotography from the Sheldon Museum of Art\nAuthor(s): Sheldon Museum of Art, Brandon K. Ruud\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803245181, 978-0803245181\nSynopsis\nIn this volume, the Sheldon Museum of Art presents more than one hundred examples from its distinguished photography collection, which contains nearly twenty-five hundred objects. Encompassing the full range of photographic history, Encounters showcases recognized masterpieces, recent acquisitions, and rarely seen treasures by a diverse range of artists, including Berenice Abbott, Manuel lvarez Bravo, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Ksebier, Andr Kertsz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yinka Shonibare, Paul Strand, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Carrie Mae Weems. \n\nEncounters explores photography through the lens of transnationalism, highlighting the artistic, cultural, geographic, scientific, and technological conflicts and co.