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"Founded in 1935, The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media is home to one of the most important film archives in the world. The collections include over twenty thousand works, from the earliest movies to the most contemporary moving picture art - from a twenty-seven-second film made by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise in 1893 to video art and media works by artists such as Chris Marker, Pipilotti Rist, and Joan Jonas. Here, for the first time, is a volume that celebrates this remarkable archive, with over five hundred images from individual films, drawn largely from the…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2006The Museum of Modern Art, New York · 376 pages · 9780870703263
MoMA QNS (New York, N.Y.)Motion picturesPhotographyVisual anthropologyArt, modern, 20th century, exhibitionsMotion pictures, historyMuseum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).Catalogs