The Photograph As Contemporary Art

Author : Charlotte Cotton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Charlotte Cotton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Andy Grundberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300259896

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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 : Charlotte Cotton
Publisher : Aperture Direct
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683950178

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Photography Is Magic (Signed Edition) by Charlotte Cotton Pdf

Photography Is Magic draws together current ideas about the use of photography as an invaluable medium in the contemporary art world. Edited and with an essay by leading photography writer and curator Charlotte Cotton, this critical publication surveys the work of a diverse group of artists, many working at the borders of the "art world" and the "photography world," all of whom are engaged with experimental ideas concerning photographic practice and its place in a shifting photographic landscape being reshaped by digital techniques. Readers are shown the scope of photographic possibilities in the context of the contemporary creative process. From Michele Abeles and Walead Beshty to Daniel Gordon and Matthew Lipps, Cotton has selected artists who are consciously reframing photographic practices using mixed media, appropriation and a recalibration of analog processes. Cotton brings these artists together around the idea of magic, the properties of illusion and material transformation that uniquely characterize photography. Beautifully produced and critically rigorous, Photography Is Magic is aimed at younger photo aficionados, students and anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of contemporary photography. It includes images and text by more than 80 artists, including Sara Cwynar, Shannon Ebner, Annette Kelm, Josh Kline, Elad Lassry, Jon Rafman, Shirana Shahbazi and Sara VanDerBeek, among many others.

Author : David Bate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000211115

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Photography by David Bate Pdf

Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography. Photography is a part of everyday life; from news and advertisements, to data collection and surveillance, to the shaping of personal and social identity, we are constantly surrounded by the photographic image. Outlining an overview of photographic genres, David Bate explores how these varied practices can be coded and interpreted using key theoretical models. Building upon the genres included in the first edition – documentary, portraiture, landscape, still life, art and global photography – this second edition includes two new chapters on snapshots and the act of looking. The revised and expanded chapters are supported by over three times as many photographs as in the first edition, examining contemporary practices in more detail and equipping students with the analytical skills they need, both in their academic studies and in their own practical work.An indispensable guide to the field, Photography: The Key Concepts is core reading for all courses that consider the place of photography in society, within photographic practice, visual culture, art, media and cultural studies.

Author : Stan Douglas
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1551521350

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Stan Douglas by Stan Douglas Pdf

Essays based on a monumental-sized photograph by preeminent visual artist Stan Douglas.

Author : Aaron Scharf
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0140131329

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Art and Photography by Aaron Scharf Pdf

Analyzes the relationship between art and photography in England and France since the mid-nineteenth century

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),John Szarkowski
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821226231

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Looking at Photographs by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),John Szarkowski Pdf

Features new duotone reproductions of one hundred landmark photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that chronicle the historical evolution of the photographic arts in works by Adams, Weston, Stieglitz, Steichen, and other notable photographers. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Author : Charlotte Cotton,Marina Chao,Pauline Vermare
Publisher : Aperture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1597114383

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Public, Private, Secret by Charlotte Cotton,Marina Chao,Pauline Vermare Pdf

Public, Private, Secret explores the roles that photography and video play in the crafting of identity, and the reconfiguration of social conventions that define our public and private selves. This collection of essays, interviews, and reflections assesses how our image-making and consumption patterns are embedded and implicated in a wider matrix of online behavior and social codes, which in turn give images a life of their own. Within this context, our visual creations and online activities blur and remove conventional separations between public and private (and sometimes secret) expression. The writings address the various disruptions, resistances, and subversions that artists propose to the limited versions of race, gender, sexuality, and autonomy that populate mainstream popular culture. They anticipate a future for our image-world rich with diversity and alterity, one that can be shaped and influenced by the agency of self-representation.

Author : David Campany
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Mark Alice Durant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 057863273X

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Running, Falling, Flying, Floating, Crawling by Mark Alice Durant Pdf

Running, Falling, Flying, Floating, Crawling is a loose compendium of photographs and texts that picture, examine, explore, and / or suggest the human body in states of abandon, helplessness, terror, subjugation, serenity, and transcendence. Artists include Andre Kertesz, Yves Klein, Laurie Simmons, Maya Deren, Gideon Mendel, Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Tabitha Soren, Nan Goldin, Rania Matar, John Divola, Harry Callahan, Sarah Charlesworth, and Francesca Woodman. Writers include David Campany, Lynne Tillman, Jennifer Blessing, Diane Seuss, Susan Bright, Gilda Williams, Marvin Heiferman, Maud Casey, and Carol Mavor.

Author : Charles Desmarais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015029709212

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Proof--Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1980 by Charles Desmarais Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015060815506

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For Every Minute You are Angry You Lose Sixty Seconds of Happiness by Anonim Pdf

"I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April, 1992. He lived in a typical two-up, two-down terraced house amongst many other two-up, two-down terraced houses... it was yellow and orange. In that respect it was totally different from every other house on the street. Charlie was a simple, gentle man. He loved flowers and the names of flowers. He loved color and surrounded himself with color. He loved his wife. Without ever trying or intending to, he showed me that the most important things in life cost nothing at all. He was my antidote to modern living." Over eight years, photographer Julian Germain documented Charlie, an elderly man living alone on England's Southern Coast, unfettered by the misplaced aspirations of the modern world; instead he spent the last years of his life absorbed in memories of his family, his love for flowers, music and the quotidian pleasures of the crossword. Germain's charming photographs are a beautiful, gentle portrait of a gentleman in his twilight years.

Author : Geoffrey Batchen
Publisher : DelMonico Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Contact printing
ISBN : 379135504X

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Emanations by Geoffrey Batchen Pdf

"An unparalleled exploration of the art of cameraless photography, Geoffrey Batchen's Emanations offers an authoritative and lavishly illustrated history of photographs made without a camera. The book reveals the myriad approaches that artists have employed to create photographic images using only a light-sensitive surface and a source of radiation. Looking back to the invention of photography in the early 19th century up through recent cameraless works by contemporary artists, Emanations tells the story of nearly 200 years of bold experimentation in photography."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Christopher Phillips,Wu Hung
Publisher : Steidl/The Walther Collection
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3958294901

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Life and Dreams by Christopher Phillips,Wu Hung Pdf

Life and Dreams is the first extensive catalog of works by Chinese artists represented in the Walther Collection. Showing artworks by 44 groundbreaking artists, it demonstrates the remarkable speed with which photography and media art have occupied important positions within experimental Chinese art since the early 1990s, and the widespread adoption of these mediums and forms by successive generations of artists. Key approaches taken up by these artists include the use of the bare body as raw material for creative manipulation; the surveying of the built environment; the synthesizing of classical and historical imagery to comment on contemporary issues: the consideration of China's political legacies; and the shaping of emergent forms of individual and collective identity.