Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950 - Rare 2001 Edition from Museum of Modern Art Oxford | Collectible Art Book for Photography Enthusiasts & Museum Collections

Ferguson, Russell, and Kerry Brougher. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 2001. 

English, Near Fine, SC, 4to, 11 1/2" x 9 3/4", [4] 205 pp.

ISBN: 1901352129

Pictorial gatefold softcover, featuring wraparound of Catherine Opie's 2000-2001 photograph "Untitled #1 (Wall Street)," white lettering to front, spine, and front interior gatefold, crease to bottom tip from front panel through pg. 32, some wear to bottom edge and tips, small chip to front fore-edge, otherwise, clean, crisp, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [4] 205 pp., replete with black-and-white and full-color images. Includes essay "Open City: Possibilities of the Street" by Russell Ferguson, essay "The Camera in the Street" by Kerry Brougher, Plates, List of Illustrations, Artists' Biographies, Bibliography, and Index. Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of the same name starting at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford from May 6 to July 16, 2001. From inside front gatefold: "Open City brings together the work of nineteen artists and photographers, spanning half a century, to chart the history and development of the street photograph. The survey takes as its starting point the raw and edgy photographs produced by artists such as Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, William Klein, and Lee Friedlander, who were instrumental in the development of radical, new approach to documentary photography."