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Overview

Now revised and expanded, this essential survey presents the work of eighty of the most important artist-photographers in the world.

The book is divided into seven sections—Portrait, Landscape, Narrative, Object, Fashion, Document, and City—that explore the diverse subjects, styles, and methods of the leading practitioners. Introductions to each section outline the genres and consider why photographers are attracted to certain themes, and how issues like memory, time, objectivity, politics, identity, and the everyday are tied to their approaches. Each photographer’s work is accompanied by Susan Bright’s commentaries and...

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Overview

Now revised and expanded, this essential survey presents the work of eighty of the most important artist-photographers in the world.

The book is divided into seven sections—Portrait, Landscape, Narrative, Object, Fashion, Document, and City—that explore the diverse subjects, styles, and methods of the leading practitioners. Introductions to each section outline the genres and consider why photographers are attracted to certain themes, and how issues like memory, time, objectivity, politics, identity, and the everyday are tied to their approaches. Each photographer’s work is accompanied by Susan Bright’s commentaries and by quotations from the artist.

Leading artists such as Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin and Martin Parr, Gregory Crewdson, Candida Höfer, Gabriel Orozco, and Wolfgang Tillmans are featured alongside emerging international figures, including Viviane Sassen, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Leigh Ladure. The introduction explores the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century, and a new final chapter looks at the changes photography has undergone in recent years.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Andy Warhol looms larger than Alfred Stieglitz over this survey of contemporary photographers, who tend to be more preoccupied with popular and commercial imagery than traditional fine art photography. With their digital manipulations and cinematically constructed narratives, many of them unabashedly embrace flashy artifice over sober documentation. Not that Bright, a former curator of the National Portrait Gallery in London, tries to categorize the messy vitality of contemporary photography into any clearly labeled trends. She divides the 80 mostly British and American photographers into seven thematic chapters that allow for wide latitude. "Portraits," for example, includes both Zwelethu Mthethwa's straightforward images of South African migrant workers and Gillian Wearing's photos of herself dressed as several of her own family members. While Bright's own commentary follows the ponderous style adopted by curators everywhere, she gives equal room to the words of the photographers themselves, who often provide insight without even trying. Cindy Sherman, whose 1980s photographs of herself masquerading as movie stars and historical characters set the stage for much of the work in this book, says, "I didn't know where [my art] was coming from. So I thought I had better not say anything or I'd blow it." (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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Books on contemporary art photography may seem to be clogging the market, with more new titles appearing every month, but in the hands of an experienced curator like Bright (director, Assoc. of Photographers Gallery, London), discriminatingly adjudicated anthologies of works by first-rate photographers continue to merit consideration. Roughly 80 trendy photographers, Nan Goldin, Tina Barney, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia among them, contribute to this volume. As is often the case in this genre, photos trump the text, which consists of brief, uncritical commentary by Bright juxtaposed with artists' quotations. The photos are lumped into broad categories-"Portrait," "Landscape," "Narrative," "Object," "Fashion," "Document," and "City"-and the layouts, which sport up to three different typefaces and type sizes per page, can be jarring. What sustains the book are the photos themselves-a stunning selection of engaging and challenging portraits and scenes by leading artists that will keep readers turning pages until the end. A serviceable bibliography lists general sources and individual artists' monographs. A companion purchase that contains more probing texts by the artists themselves is the recent Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on Their Art, edited by Brooks Johnson. Recommended for comprehensive photography collections as a versatile overview of current art photography.-Russell T. Clement, Northwestern Univ. Lib., Evanston, IL Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781597110266
  • Publisher: Aperture Foundation
  • Publication date: 8/28/2006
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 9.22 (w) x 10.80 (h) x 0.73 (d)

Meet the Author

Susan Bright has contributed to numerous publications and is the author of Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography and Art Photography Now. She currently lives and works in New York.

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