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The uses of photography : art, politics, and the reinvention of a medium

Dawsey, Jill, editor, Antin, David contributor, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. host institution

Overview

\"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.\"--Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ; University of California Press
• Subject: Photography California San Diego History 20th century Exhibitions. / Photography Political aspects Exhibitions. / Photography Social aspects Exhibitions. / Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History 20th century Exhibitions. / Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
• ISBN: 0520290593, 9780520290594

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TR645.S252 M8 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE