PORTRAIT OF THE ART WORLD
A Century of ARTnews Photographs

William F. Stapp
With essays by Pete Hamill
and Milton Esterow

Contributions by:
Tracey L. Avant
Frank H. Goodyear III
Sarah A. Loffman
Tess Mann
Ann Shumard
Kristin Smith

2002 Photography
184 pp. 9 x 12
Cloth ISBN 0-300-09752-2 $39.95
Published in association with the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

ARTnews, the oldest art magazine in America and the most widely circulated art magazine in the world, is celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in 2002. This attractive book celebrates and commemorates this milestone event, presenting one hundred of the best photographic portraits commissioned by and reproduced in the magazine since its origin. These fascinating photographs chronicle the history of the magazine and present a “who’s who” of people who have shaped the art world over the last century.

Portrait of the Art World includes photographs of many of the great European and American artists of the twentieth century, including George Bellows, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, and Alice Neel. The photographers–often as fascinating as their subjects–range from Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Alice Boughton (early members of Alfred Stieglitz’s circle), and Jessie Tarbox Beals (perhaps the first woman photojournalist) to Stieglitz himself, Man Ray, and Cecil Beaton. Contemporary photographers featured in the book include Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Arnold Newman, Richard Avedon, and Robert Mapplethorpe. The book also presents an essay by William F. Stapp exploring the historical context of portrait photography in ARTnews; an essay on the history of ARTnews by Pete Hamill; and an essay by Milton Esterow, the current editor and publisher of ARTnews, discussing his personal view of the magazine.

William F. Stapp is an independent photographic historian and curator.
Pete Hamill is a best-selling author and longtime journalist.