The Uses of Photography

Art, Politics, and the Reinvention of a Medium
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-520-29059-4
Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 1304 g

The Uses of Photography examines a network of artists who were active in Southern California between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. These artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of conceptual art, through photographic works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, The Uses of Photography focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young University of California San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1967. Artists such as Eleanor Antin, Allan Kaprow, Fred Lonidier, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, and Carrie Mae Weems employed photography and its expanded forms as a means to dismantle modernist autonomy, to contest notions of photographic truth, and to engage in political critique. The work of these artists shaped emergent accounts of postmodernism in the visual arts and their influence is felt throughout the global contemporary art world today.

Contributors include David Antin, Pamela M. Lee, Judith Rodenbeck, and Benjamin J. Young.

Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Exhibition dates:

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego: September 24, 2016–January 2, 2017

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dawsey, Jill

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lee, Pamela M.

Young, Benjamin

Rodenbeck, Judith

Antin, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Ausstellungskataloge, Museumsführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION

1 THE USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY
2 "THERE WAS NO RADICALIZATION.IT WAS NORMAL FOR US"
3 VARIOUS SMALL ETHNOFICTIONS OF COASTAL CALIFORNIA
4 DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTARY

REMEMBERING RECORDING REPRESENTING
CHECKLIST OF THE EXHIBITION
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
STAFF
INDEX
IMAGE CREDITS

Über Autor(innen)

Jill Dawsey is Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Prior to joining MCASD, she held curatorial posts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Dawsey’s recent exhibitions include Laugh-in: Art, Comedy, Performance (2015), Approximately Infinite Universe (2014), and The Smithson Effect (2011, for the UMFA). She received her PhD in art history from Stanford University and holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College.