How Photography Became Contemporary Art

Author : Andy Grundberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300234107

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How Photography Became Contemporary Art by Andy Grundberg Pdf

A leading critic’s inside story of “the photo boom” during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 80s When Andy Grundberg landed in New York in the early 1970s as a budding writer, photography was at the margins of the contemporary art world. By 1991, when he left his post as critic for the New York Times, photography was at the vital center of artistic debate. Grundberg writes eloquently and authoritatively about photography’s “boom years,” chronicling the medium’s increasing role within the most important art movements of the time, from Earth Art and Conceptual Art to performance and video. He also traces photography’s embrace by museums and galleries, as well as its politicization in the culture wars of the 80s and 90s. Grundberg reflects on the landmark exhibitions that defined the moment and his encounters with the work of leading photographers—many of whom he knew personally—including Gordon Matta-Clark, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Mapplethorpe. He navigates crucial themes such as photography’s relationship to theory as well as feminism and artists of color. Part memoir and part history, this perspective by one of the period’s leading critics ultimately tells a larger story about the crucial decades of the 70s and 80s through the medium of photography.

Author : Alexandra Moschovi
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9789462702424

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A Gust of Photo-Philia by Alexandra Moschovi Pdf

The first transnational history of photography’s accommodation in the art museum Photography was long regarded as a “middle-brow” art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book—part institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and practices—Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim, the V&A, and the Centre Pompidou offer new insights into how art as photography and photography as art have been collected and exhibited since the 1930s. Moschovi argues that this accommodation not only changed photography’s status in art, culture, and society, but also played a significant role in the rebranding of the art museum as a cultural and social site.

Author : Charlotte Cotton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133021290

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The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton Pdf

"An essential guide."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Author : David Campany
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714863920

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Art and Photography by David Campany Pdf

The first major survey of photography's place in recent art history.

Author : Andy Grundberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Photography
ISBN : PSU:000017838047

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Crisis of the Real by Andy Grundberg Pdf

... His interpretations and critical views have helped shpae a broad understanding of photography's complex roles in art and in the media. This volume is the first compilation of his work.

Author : Charlotte Cotton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780500775943

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The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Fourth) (World of Art) by Charlotte Cotton Pdf

A new edition of the definitive title in the field of contemporary art photography by one of the world’s leading experts on the subject, Charlotte Cotton. In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. The Photograph as Contemporary Art introduces the extraordinary range of contemporary art photography, from portraits of intimate life to highly staged directorial spectacles. Arranged thematically, the book reproduces work from a vast span of photographers, including Andreas Gursky, Barbara Kasten, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Deana Lawson, Diana Markosian, Elle Pérez, Gregory Halpern, Lieko Shiga, Nan Goldin, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Pixy Liao, Susan Meiselas, and Zanele Muholi. This fully revised and updated new edition revitalizes previous discussion of works from the 2000s through dialogue with more recent practice. Alongside previously featured work, Charlotte Cotton celebrates a new generation of artists who are shaping photography as a culturally significant medium for our current sociopolitical climate. A superb resource, The Photograph as Contemporary Art is a uniquely broad and diverse reflection of the field.

Author : Andy Grundberg,Kathleen McCarthy Gauss
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015027874711

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Photography and Art by Andy Grundberg,Kathleen McCarthy Gauss Pdf

Author : Corey Keller,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015082684831

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Brought to Light by Corey Keller,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Pdf

'Brought to Light' invites readers to step back to a time when photography, X-rays, and movies were new, when forays into the world beneath the skin or the realm beyond our everyday vision captivated scientists and the public alike. The text ultimately traces the rise of popular science.

Author : Jill Dawsey,Pamela M. Lee,Benjamin Young,Judith Rodenbeck,David Antin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780520290594

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The Uses of Photography by Jill Dawsey,Pamela M. Lee,Benjamin Young,Judith Rodenbeck,David Antin Pdf

The Uses of Photography examines a network of artists who were active in Southern California between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. These artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of conceptual art, through photographic works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, The Uses of Photography focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young University of California San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1967. Artists such as Eleanor Antin, Allan Kaprow, Fred Lonidier, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, and Carrie Mae Weems employed photography and its expanded forms as a means to dismantle modernist autonomy, to contest notions of photographic truth, and to engage in political critique. The work of these artists shaped emergent accounts of postmodernism in the visual arts and their influence is felt throughout the global contemporary art world today. Contributors include David Antin, Pamela M. Lee, Judith Rodenbeck, and Benjamin J. Young. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Exhibition dates: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego: September 24, 2016ÐJanuary 2, 2017

Author : Kim Grant
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271079479

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All About Process by Kim Grant Pdf

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played a dominant role in the development of modern and contemporary art. This astute account of the ways in which process has been understood and addressed examines canonical artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, and De Kooning, as well as philosophers and art theorists such as Henri Focillon, R. G. Collingwood, and John Dewey. Placing “process art” within a larger historical context, Grant looks at the changing relations of the artist’s labor to traditional craftsmanship and industrial production, the status of art as a commodity, the increasing importance of the body and materiality in art making, and the nature and significance of the artist’s role in modern society. In doing so, she shows how process is an intrinsic part of aesthetic theory that connects to important contemporary debates about work, craft, and labor. Comprehensive and insightful, this synthetic study of process in modern and contemporary art reveals how artists’ explicit engagement with the concept fits into a broader narrative of the significance of art in the industrial and postindustrial world.

Author : Kim Sichel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300246186

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Making Strange by Kim Sichel Pdf

A richly illustrated look at some of the most important photobooks of the 20th century France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpouring of brilliantly designed books. Making Strange offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring seminal publications by Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Pierre Jahan, William Klein, and Germaine Krull. Kim Sichel argues that these books both held a mirror to their time and created an unprecedented modernist visual language. Sichel provides an engaging analysis through the lens of materiality, emphasizing the photobook as an object with which the viewer interacts haptically as well as visually. Rich in historical context and beautifully illustrated, Making Strange reasserts the role of French photobooks in the history of modern art.

Author : William Wegman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:81541542

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William Wegman by William Wegman Pdf

Author : Mike Starn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016071339

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Mike & Doug Starn by Mike Starn Pdf

Author : David Campany
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780262359467

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On Photographs by David Campany Pdf

An intimate meditation on photography for the ages, curated around 120 epochal photographs. In On Photographs, curator and writer David Campany presents an exploration of photography in 120 photographs. Proceeding not by chronology or genre or photographer, Campany's eclectic selection unfolds according to its own logic. We see work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Yves Louise Lawler, Andreas Gursky, and Rineke Dijkstra. There is fashion photography by William Klein, one of Vivian Maier's contact sheets, and a carefully staged scene by Gregory Crewdson, as well as images culled from magazines and advertisements. Each of the 120 photographs is accompanied by Campany's lucid and incisive commentary.

Author : Nicole R. Fleetwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674919228

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Marking Time by Nicole R. Fleetwood Pdf

"A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system. More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America’s prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions—including solitary confinement—these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls. Their bold works, many of which are being published for the first time in this volume, have opened new possibilities in American art. As the movement to transform the country’s criminal justice system grows, art provides the imprisoned with a political voice. Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century."