Art and Photography

by Campany, David

• ISBN13: 9780714842868
• ISBN10: 0714842869
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-12
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

"Art and Photography" surveys a rich and important history, from the 1960s tohe 21st century. Arranged thematically, it presents works by the mostignificant international artists who have explored and extended theoundaries of photography.;This influential body of work by over 160 artistsver four decades is contextualised in the "Documents" section by originalrtist's statements and interviews, as well as lucid reflections onhotography by major thinkers of our era such as Roland Barthes and Jeanaudrillard.;Today photography is art's pre-eminent medium. Photographyervades our visual culture. It has become what painting was in previousenturies: a universal language. Today's photographers are internationallydmired as "the painters of modern life". Yet it took the whole of the 20thentury for photography to reach this status. On its invention, thehotograph was derided as a purely mechanical, "artless" medium which couldever be considered among the fine arts. As the 20th century unfolded,odernist movements experimented with the photograph and expanded its limits,

Author Biography

David Campany is a writer and artist, and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London. He was co-founder of the organization Photoforum, which brings together theorists and practitioners working in the photographic arts. His published work includes essays in Rewriting Conceptual Art, ed. Jon Bird and Michael Newman (Reaktion, 1999); Postcards on Photography: Photorealism and the Reproduction (Cambridge Darkroom, 1998); Cruel and Tender: the Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph (Tate, 2003) and Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image (Photoforum/Photoworks, 2006). He is the editor of the anthology The Cinematic (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2007) and the author of Photography and Film (Reaktion, 2007).