First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography
Hardcover, 219 pp., 8 color and 89 black-and-white illus.
ISBN 978-0-30014-133-7
ISBN-10 0-30014-133-5
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Joshua Chuang, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (October 7, 2008–January 4, 2009). By Chuang, with contributions by Steven W. Zucker and Allan Chasanoff.

First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography celebrates a major gift of 241 photographs donated to the Yale University Art Gallery by Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961. Drawn from this highly respected collection, the photographs in this intriguing volume confront viewers with the challenge of doubt and confusion in so-called straight pictures. Featured are perceptually provocative images by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Clarence John Laughlin, Imogen Cunningham, and Lee Friedlander, among others. The book’s essays raise awareness of the interpretive nature of the lens and the interpolative nature of the medium.

Silver medal winner of the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award in the category
of Photography

Named one of the Best Photography Books of 2008 by Photo-eye.

Item# 315
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From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry
Paper, 56 pp., 23 color illus.
ISBN 978-0-89467-972-8
ISBN-10 0-89467-972-4
Catalogue of the exhibition, organized by Yale students under the direction of Ash Anderson and Pamela Franks, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (May 23–September 7, 2008), with essays by Richard Benson and others.

The third in the Yale University Art Gallery's annual series of student-curated exhibitions, From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry celebrates this noted scholar's remarkable collection of over two hundred photographs, currently on long-term loan to the Yale University Art Gallery. This beautifully illustrated, intimate catalogue includes essays on Bry's collection and selected entries on photographs by Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Laura Gilpin, Irving Penn, and others.

Item# 143
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French Drawings: Acquisitions 1970–1984
Paper, 95 pp., 15 black-and-white illus.
ISBN 0-89467-033-6
Catalogue of the exhibition, organized by Richard S. Field, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (April 4–June 10, 1984), with texts by Field and others.

This catalogue features reproductions of and brief yet detailed essays on a delicate Flowers by Paul Cézanne (ca. 1890), Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s mischievous Satyr Teased by Two Putti (ca. 1774–1780), and a moody charcoal Landscape by Georges Michel (ca. 1830) as well as recently acquired drawings by Eugène Boudin, Georges Braque, Théodore Géricault, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Vuillard, and others.

Item# 1060
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