{"title":"Books by Jessica D. Brier","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781517918231","title":"Typophoto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnveiling the avant-garde fusion of photography and modern graphic design\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concept \u003ci\u003eTypophoto\u003c\/i\u003e, the synthesis of photography and typography, was coined by renowned Bauhaus artist and theorist LÁszlÓ Moholy-Nagy and played a foundational role in the modernist graphic design movement known as the New Typography. Jessica D. Brier examines how \u003ci\u003eTypophoto\u003c\/i\u003e was embraced by early graphic designers-a group who ultimately reinvented photography as a tool of modern consumerism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTypophoto\u003c\/i\u003e embodied designers’ belief in photography as an efficient form of visual communication, merging the material and the visual by abstracting both typographic and photographic form and transmuting photography into graphic material through the halftone process. Uniquely situating 1920s advertising discourse alongside avant-garde theory and significant interwar photographic concepts, Brier positions \u003ci\u003eTypophoto\u003c\/i\u003e as an analytical framework for considering how photography-as process, image, material, and metaphor-was effectively reconceived through the professionalization of graphic design in Europe and the United States. This was particularly true in Germany, where the capitalist ethos driving the country’s economic recovery bolstered the belief that graphics could create ideal reader-consumers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing \u003ci\u003eTypophoto\u003c\/i\u003e from its inception through New Typography’s experiments with the medium, Brier demonstrates how photography was used as a tool for manipulating perception as it became a visual language of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301909868917,"sku":"9781517918231","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781517918231_1cf24c4f-4587-4fde-a600-9b927d2b3615.jpg?v=1786022176"},{"product_id":"9781785514494","title":"On the Grid","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis richly illustrated volume surveys photographs, prints, artist’s books, and printed sculptures, and explores how artists have embraced, rejected, and reclaimed the grid. The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets to halftone photographic reproductions. It dominates the organisation, perception, and representation of the modern world, especially in print. Deeply embedded in a Western worldview, the grid visualises control, mastery, and order. As an invisible framing device, it has become so pervasive that we habitually ignore it. Yet when artists call our attention to the grid, its layered meanings come fully into view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print surveys photographs, prints, artist’s books, and printed sculptures from the dynamic permanent collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. From 19th-century scientific and portrait photography to avant-garde and conceptual photography; from mid- 20th-century Minimalist, Pop Art, and Op Art printmaking to experimental bookmaking and photography in the 21st century, this richly illustrated volume explores how artists have embraced, rejected, and reclaimed the grid. By altering and challenging perception, they offer new ways of seeing the world. With contributions by Jared Bark, Jessica D. Brier, Lukas Felzmann, Stephen Frailey, John P. 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After graduating from Vassar College in 1940, McKenna worked independently as a sought-after architectural and portrait photographer, making unique yet underrecognised contributions to American modernism and documentary photography. McKenna’s work was published in numerous books and magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Fortune. The Museum of Modern Art’s 1955 landmark exhibition Latin American Modernism Since 1945 featured her architectural photographs. She made iconic portraits of artists and writers, including W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Alexander Calder, Truman Capote, T. S. Eliot, Laura Gilpin, Henry Moore, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Anne Sexton, Dylan Thomas, and Eudora Welty. McKenna’s story as a queer woman would be lost if not for her dedication to preserving her own legacy. She embraced photography to explore the complexities of human experience — including her own.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305303028085,"sku":"9781785514548","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781785514548_b93c2e60-e2e3-4f9f-b8fa-4c66f0c7f04d.jpg?v=1786025959"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jessica-d-brier.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}