Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before

Name: Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before
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ISBN: 9780300136845

ISBN-10: 0300136846

ISBN-13: 9780300136845

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Fried

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From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried further demonstrates that certain philosophically deep problems-associated with notions of theatricality, literalness, and objecthood, and touching on the role of original intention in artistic production, first discussed in his controshy;versial essay 0;Art and Objecthood1; (1967)-have come to the fore once again in recent photography. This means that the…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 420
Size: 0.87" wide x 1.15" long x 0.17" tall
Weight: 4.686
Language: English

Michael Fried is J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and director of the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University.



Introduction



Three Beginnings



Jeff Wall and Absorption; Heidegger on Worldhood and Technology



Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the Everyday



Barthes's Punctum



Thomas Struth's Museum Photographs



Jean-Francois Chevrier on the "Tableau Form"; Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye



Portraits by Thomas Struth, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Luc Delahaye, and Roland Fischer; Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's Film Zidane



Street Photography Revisited: Jeff Wall, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia



Thomas Demand's Allegories of Intention, "Exclusion" in Candida Hofer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Thomas Struth



"Good" versus "Bad" Objecthood: James Welling, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall


Conclusion: Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before


Notes


Photograph Credits


Index