The Photograph as Contemporary Art: (World of Art Series) - Softcover

Cotton, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500204187 ISBN 13: 9780500204184

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

This book provides an introduction to contemporary art photography, identifying its most important features and themes and celebrating its exciting pluralism through an overview of its most important and innovative practitioners. The nearly 250 photographers whose work is reproduced in the book range from established artists such as Isa Genzken, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Thomas Demand, Nan Goldin and Sherrie Levine to emerging talents such as Walead Beshty, Jason Evans, Lucas Blalock, Sara VanDerBeek and Viviane Sassen. This new edition brings the story of contemporary art photography up to date with a new introduction outlining the evolution of photography from documentary tool to art form, and an updated final chapter focusing on the younger generation of artists who emphasize the technical and material properties of photography, employ it as part of a wider pan-media practice, or respond to evolving new modes of dissemination in the digital age.

Table of Contents

Introduction · 1. If This Is Art · 2. Once Upon a Time · 3. Deadpan · 4. Something and Nothing · 5. Intimate Life · 6. Moments in History · 7. Revived and Remade · 8. Physical and Material

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Cotton has held positions including Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Head of Programming at the Photographers' Gallery, London, Creative Director at the National Media Museum, UK and Curator of Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She is also the author of Imperfect Beauty, Then Things Went Quiet and Guy Bourdin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500204187
• ISBN 13: 9780500204184
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 256