What is a photograph?

Squiers, Carol, 1948- (author.). Batchen, Geoffrey, (writer of added commentary.). Baker, George (George Thomas), 1970- (writer of added commentary.). Steyerl, Hito, (writer of added commentary.). International Center of Photography (host institution.).

Summary: Organized by ICP Curator Carol Squiers, 'What Is a Photograph?' will explore the intense creative experimentation in photography that has occurred since the 1970s. Conceptual art introduced photography into contemporary art making, using the medium in ways that challenged it artistically, intellectually, and technically and broadened the notion of what a photograph could be in art. A new generation of artists began an equally rigorous but more aesthetically adventurous analysis, which probed photography itself - from the role of light, color, composition, to materiality and the subject. 'What Is a Photograph?' brings together these artists, who reinvented photography.

Record details

ISBN: 3791353519
ISBN: 9783791353517
Physical Description: print
256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Publisher: Munich ; DelMonico Books-Prestel ; [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Published on the occasion of the exhibition What is a photograph? held at the International Center of Photography, New York, January 31-May 4, 2014. Artists included in the exhibition : Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, Liz Deschenes, Adam Fuss, Owen Kydd, Floris Neususs, Marlo Pascual, Sigmar Polke, Eileen Quinlan, Jon Rafman, Gerhard Richter, Mariah Robertson, Alison Rossiter, Lucas Samaras, David Benjamin Sherry, Travess Smalley, Kate Steciw, Artie Vierkant, James Welling, Christopher Williams, Letha Wilson.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	What is a photograph? / Carol Squiers -- "Photography": An art of the real / Geoffrey Batchen -- Photography and the philosophers / George Baker -- Walking through screens: Images in transition / Hito Steyerl -- Works.