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Eye to eye : the camera remembers : portrait photographs

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Description: Photographer Renate Ponsold has been in a unique position to photograph some of the most influential people in the arts and letters of the past thirty years. Such artists as Duke Ellington, Sonia Delaunay, Erick Hawkins, Henry Moore, Edward Albee, Man Ray, Klaus Kinski, Frank Stella, and Virgil Thomson are captured at work and at leisure, thoughtful, laughing, grave, but always, thanks to Ponsolds gift, truly alive. Many of the photographs (109 of them are richly reproduced in duotone) are amplified by Ponsolds anecdotal reminiscences about the people portrayed. In addition, Eye to Eye includes an important essay by noted critic Dore Ashton.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1988]
Call number: 637110
Creator: Ponsold, Renate(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1555950051; 9781555950057

The anatomy of the human eye as illustrated by enlarged stereoscope photographs

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A complete anatomical ophthalmology teaching kit, The Anatomy of the Human Eye: As Illustrated by Enlarged Stereoscope Photographs, created by Oxford professor Arthur Thomson. The kit includes 67 stereoscopic photographs of human eye anatomy with accompanying printed text, an index to the photographs, and the original clamshell box.

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The responsive eye

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The Responsive Eye, an exhibition of more than 120 paintings and constructions by 99 artists from some 15 countries, documents a widespread and powerful new direction in contemporary art. These works exist less as objects to be examined than as generators of perceptual responses in the eye and mind of the viewer. Using only lines, bands and patterns, flat areas of color, white, gray or black or cleanly cut wood, glass, metal and plastic, perceptual artists establish a new relationship between the observer and a work of art. These new kinds of subjective experiences, which result from the simultaneous contrast of colors, after-images, illusions and other optical devices, are entirely real to the eye even though they do not exist physically in the work itself. Each observer sees and responds somewhat differently.

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"Eye of Thomas Jefferson" exhibition photographs, 1976

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A collection of photographic portraits of various people, compiled by the Huntington Library from various sources, in the mid to late 20th century. Includes famous people and lesser known people. See finding aid for an alphabetical list of portraits.

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