The Original Copy

Since its birth in the first half of the 19th century, photography has offered
extraordinary possibilities of isolating works of art for study and pleasure.
Through cropping, focus, angle of view, distance and lighting as well as the
ex post facto techniques of dark room manipulation, collage, montage and
assemblage, photographers not only interpret the artworks they record but
create stunning reinventions.
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1939 to Today presents a
critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture.
Through a selection of nearly 300 outstanding pictures by more than 100
artists from the 19th century to the present, The Original Copy explores how
one medium has become implicated in the understanding of the other.
Photographs reproduced in this richly illustrated volume range in subject
from inanimate objects to performing bodies, and include major works by
medium's most influential artists, from early modernism to the present.