The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
The first accessible guide to the key artists and uses of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s.
An ideal introduction to this popular subject in contemporary culture, this highly readable book surveys work by more than 150 artist-photographers: Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Richard Billingham, Jurgen Teller, Thomas Demand, Yinka Shonibare...
The first accessible guide to the key artists and uses of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s.
An ideal introduction to this popular subject in contemporary culture, this highly readable book surveys work by more than 150 artist-photographers: Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Richard Billingham, Jurgen Teller, Thomas Demand, Yinka Shonibare, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, Wolfgang Tillmans, and many more.
More than 200 examples of the most important works are illustrated. Themed chapters consider subjects such as narrative and storytelling in art photography, photographing the everyday and the insignificant, the use of photography in conceptual art, and the cool, detached, objective aesthetic prevalent in current art photography. 210 illustrations, 100 in color.
本书作者夏洛特·科顿是策展人、作家。她曾担任美国洛杉矶州立博物馆瓦里斯·安嫩伯格摄影部主管，英国伦敦摄影家艺术馆的项目负责人，英国国立媒体博物馆创意总监，伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆摄影策展人。她策划了许多当代摄影展，出版了《缺憾之美》《万物归于平静》《盖伊·伯尔丁》等书。她也是wordswithoutpictures.org和EitherAnd.org这两个网站的创始人。