Fried, Michael.

Why photography matters as art as never before / by Michael, Fried. - 1st ed. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008. - ix, 409 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-397) and index.

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-François 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 Höfer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Thomas Struth -- "Good" versus "bad" objecthood : James Welling, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall.

9780300136845 (hbk.)

2008019019

GBA887998 bnb

014668339 Uk


Photography, Artistic.
Photography--Philosophy.

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