Thomas Walther Collection
The Thomas Walther Collection is a collection of modern photographs that the Museum of Modern Art has named the “most important private photo collection” in the world.
Thomas Walther (* 1950) is a German art collector. The focus of his photography collection lies between the First and Second World Wars . In 2000, the Metropolitan Museum exhibited Walther's collection of flea market finds under the title Other Pictures: Vernacular Photographs From the Thomas Walther Collection , making it one of the first museums in the world to exhibit anonymous snapshots in an art-historical context. After the Museum of Modern Art acquired over 300 photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection for its collection in 2001, it presented the Object: Photo exhibition in 2015 . Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909–1949 the result of a four-year research and conservation project in which the entire collection was processed for the first time by a team of over two dozen leading international photography experts.
The Thomas Walther Collection includes both extraordinary works by unknown photographers and works by artists such as Edward Weston , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Man Ray , Berenice Abbott , Walker Evans , Paul Strand , Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen .
supporting documents
- ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/exhibitions/2000/other-pictures-vernacular-photographs-from-the-thomas-walther-collection
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/image-conscious
- ↑ http://press.moma.org/2014/12/objectphoto-modern-photographs-the-thomas-walther-collection-1909-1949/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/arts/design/moma-gives-walther-photo-collection-multiple-platforms.html?_r=0
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/19/arts/inside-art-a-windfall-for-the-modern.html