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"The photographer Ming Smith has practiced her craft for more than fifty years, producing a body of work distinguished by its uncanny merging of subject and style. Her Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere (1991) was made in the depths of winter. Depicting a lone figure whose form dissolves into the ink-black shadows of a frigid city street at night, the photograph testifies to the artist's lifelong entanglement with the truths and tensions that animate African American experiences. This latest volume in MoMA's One on One series invites readers to discover, through the close reading of one picture, Smith's ethereal yet enduring contributions to the history of photography."-- Page 4 of cover.

"The Ivorian artist Frâedâeric Bruly Bouabrâe created an unmistakable and entirely unique body of work, first as a writer and linguist, and then in a dazzling series of colorful drawings on a multitude of subjects, from his native Bâetâe culture to the urban milieu of Abidjan to the all-encompassing themes of fraternity, equality and global understanding. All but unknown even in his home country of Cãote d'Ivoire, Bouabrâe found international recognition in 1989 when he participated in the landmark Paris exhibition Magiciens de la terre, and his work has since been the subject of solo and group exhibitions around the world. Published to accompany the first museum survey of Bouabrâe's work in North America, this catalog offers a vivid account of the artist's long and multifaceted career, including a detailed chronology of his life and reproductions of more than six hundred of his drawings. An essay by curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi introduces Bouabrâe to a new audience, illuminating his significance as both an important African creator and one of the most intriguing artists of the 20th century."--Page 4 of cover.

South Asia holds a unique place among the many regions of the world where modern architecture was understood as both a tool for social progress and a global lingua franca in the second half of the 20th century. Following the end of British rule in 1947-48, architects in the newly formed nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh (East Pakistan until 1971) and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) proposed a novel understanding of modernity, disrupting the colonial hierarchy of center and periphery by challenging modernism's universalist claims. Architecture offered multiple ways to break with the colonial past. Through the establishment of institutions that embodied the societal aspirations of the period, and the creation of new cities and spaces for political representation, South Asian architects produced a body of work in dialogue with global developments while advancing the theory and practice of low-cost, climatically and socially responsive design. Anchored by a newly commissioned portfolio of images from architectural photographer Randhir Singh, this catalog features essays by the curators and scholars in the field on subjects such as the politics of concrete, institution-building, higher education, housing, infrastructure and industry, landscape and design, as well as presentations of 17 projects from around the subcontinent. While several of the architects appearing in these pages have in recent years received monographic exhibitions, The Project of Independence marks the first attempt to consider their work within the ideological frameworks of its creation and the political context of the region as a whole.--Dust jacket.

Published to accompany a major traveling exhibition, this small volume presents the 34 drawings Rauschenberg made for each canto of Dante's Inferno. Between 1958 and 1960, Robert Rauschenberg made drawings for each of the thirtyfour cantos, or sections, of Dante's fourteenth-century poem Inferno by using a novel technique to transfer photographic reproductions from magazines or newspapers onto paper. Acquired by The Museum of Modern Art soon after it was completed, the resulting work is his most sustained exercise in the medium of drawing and a testament to Rauschenberg's desire to bring his experience of the contemporary world into his art. The drawings weave together meditations on public and private spheres, politics and inner life. Above all, they pay homage to creativity in dialogue: each drawing is a conversation with Dante across the centuries. This volume includes newly commissioned poems by Robin Coste Lewis and Kevin Young that offer contemporary responses to Rauschenberg's celebrated series and an essay by MoMA curator Leah Dickerman that explores its making in depth.

A close reading of Helen Levitt's famous photograph of three children at play on a New York stoop

An abiding image of American racial segregation from 1950s New Orleans

On the reception and the politics of an iconic image from Cindy Sherman's influential Centerfolds series

Ana Janevski is Curator in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art. Roxana Marcoci is Senior Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, and C-MAP Leader for Central and Eastern Europe at the Museum. Ksenia Nouril is former C-MAP Fellow for Central and Eastern European Art at The Museum of Modern Art.

"In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange's winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys, Lange photographed migrant laborers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities, and Japanese American internment camps. Taylor's hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Lange's own journals and notebook fragments, framing the ways social and ecological injustices of the past rhyme eerily with those of the present. The result is a stunning meditation on movement, landscape, and place"--

Kynaston McShine was a Trinidadian museum curator who organized some of the 20th century¿s most consequential exhibitions and was the first curator of colour to work at a major American museum. At the time of the exhibition ¿Information¿ he was associate curator in MoMA¿s painting and sculpture department.

Michelle Millar Fisher is the Louis C. Madeira IV Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts and Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Kat Kuang is an artist and illustrator based in San Francisco.

Stuart Comer is Chief Curator in the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Sarah Hermanson Meister is a Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Frances Benjamin Johnston (American, 1864¿1952) achieved acclaim as a photo journalist and studio photographer based in Washington, D.C., and is recognized as a pioneer for women in photography. LaToya Ruby Frazier is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is represented by Gavin Brown¿s Enterprise in New York.