Scharf Aaron. Art and Photography

Penguin Books, 1974. — 404 p.Illustrated with more than 250 black and white photographs, this book explores the world of art as it relates to the medium of photography.Aaron Scharf (1922 – 1993) was an American-born British art historian who contributed in particular to the history of photography. His investigation uncovered links between painting (and other artforms) and photography, and evidence for artists using photography for reference and other purposes, as well as the way photographers with aspirations as artists referred to painting in their work. He thus pioneered a new field of art history when Pop Art and other movements in the 1960s were reincorporating the medium of photography and reference to popular photographic images, into mainstream artistic practice. Scharf popularised his study and discoveries with publication of his profusely illustrated hardback Penguin volume 'Art and Photography' (1968).