Author: Joel Leivick (Introduction)
Title: The Enduring Illusion: Photographs from the Stanford University Museum of Art
Description: Stanford, CA: Stanford University Museum of Art, [1996]. 4to. [ca 95 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Covers. Printed pictorial paper wraps. Pages fine. B&W photographic plates throughout. Since its invention more than a century and a half ago, photography has become an important vehicle for communication and expression. Whether made for personal, commercial, or artistic purposes--and these categories are not mutually exclusive--photographic images surround us. Nevertheless, as the works in this volume demonstrate, photographs maintain their capacity to stir our imagination by their beauty, their strangeness, their apparent objectivity, and their exceptional power to evoke a time, or a place, or a mood. Selected from a museum collection that surveys the history of the medium, The ENduring Illusion: Photographs from the Stanford University Museum of Art celebrates the ingenuity of artists who, by manipulating a technical device and a chemical process, create wonderful, varied, and compelling objects. .

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