ISBN: 0262192802 - Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1989 soft cover Interior clean; binding tight. Wraps are clean. Dust jacket is protected in mylar sleeve.

First Edition. First edition. Oblong softcover. 225 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Smithsonian that ran April 28 through September 10, 1989. Introduction by Merry A. Foresta. Essay by Joshua P. Smith. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations after images by Barbara Kruger, Andres Serrano, John Divola, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Laurie Simmons, Joel Peter Witkin and numerous others. A very near fine copy in wrappers in a verynear fine dust jacket.…

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine in Very Good DJ. Square 4to, color & b/w plates. Jacket has slight sticker residue on front and is lightly bumped at top edge of rear panel.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 208 pages. Pictures that are made, not taken, are the focus of this exciting collection of works by 90 American artists who are using appropriation, computer technology, performance, and numerous other sources of inspiration to stretch the limits and expand the possibilities of photographic art. "Perhaps in the future," Man Ray suggested to Duchamp, "photography would replace all art." The Photography of Invention hints at that future by documenting a decade of startling new work in American photography: work that challenges the accepted hierarchy of the arts and, arguably, establishes photography as the equal of the other arts. Pictures that are made, not taken, are the focus of this exciting collection of works by 90 American artists who are using appropriation, computer technology, performance, and numerous other sources of inspiration to stretch the limits and expand the possibilities of photographic art. The selection of nontraditional pictures includes works by some of the decade's most interesting experimenters?Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, William Christenberry, Louise Lawler, Stefan Roloff, and others who create or manipulate the subject photographed. Record # 362239.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+, dust jacket only. Very Good+; Color and b/w illus. Published for exhibition held 1989. Introduction by Merry A. Foresta. Blue paperbac k binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 227 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is a Very Fine copy of the first edition (1st printing). The dust jacket is near fine -there is some minor ruffling along the top edge of the dust jacket spine. In a wide variety of styles what was hopt back then-some still is.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 227 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Published for the exhibition held at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 28 to September 10, 1989. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Pictures that are made, not taken, are the focus of this exciting collection of works by 90 American artists who are using appropriation, computer technology, performance, and numerous other sources of inspiration to stretch the limits and expand the possibilities of photographic art. 'Perhaps in the future,' Man Ray suggested to Duchamp, 'photography would replace all art.' The Photography of Invention hints at that future by documenting a decade of startling new work in American photography: work that challenges the accepted hierarchy of the arts and, arguably, establishes photography as the equal of the other arts. Pictures that are made, not taken, are the focus of this exciting collection of works by 90 American artists who are using appropriation, computer technology, performance, and numerous other sources of inspiration to stretch the limits and expand the possibilities of photographic art. The selection of nontraditional pictures includes works by some of the decade's most interesting experimenters-Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, William Christenberry, Louise Lawler, Stefan Roloff, and others who create or manipulate the subject photographed. Photography has traditionally been used to capture experience and create images; these works, however, examine preexisting images or image styles that dominate our culture. As Joshua Smith points out 'mass media and popular culture advertising, fashion movies, television, video, and other electronic media have made the world photographic, become the common language, and shaped a generation's visual and critical viewpoint.' Rather than commenting on or representing life, photography is now an independent art form that has expanded the creative vocabulary of contemporary artists. These 'made' pictures encompass a variety of styles and techniques: the artists may fabricate or arrange the subject matter for the camera; invent or subvert traditional styles; present themselves in fictive roles invoking allegory or myth, fantasy and illusion; reassemble existing art objects in new contexts; make the psychic appear real and the real hyperreal. Many pictures are made in the usual optical/chemical manner, creating a tension between the obviously manipulated subject and the inherent 'truth' of the photographic print; while others are made by the unconventional use of equipment, processes, and materials that intentionally deny the perfect print There are photograms, photocollages, light drawings, chemical images, marked or painted on negatives, photosilkscreens and photolithographs, and new high tech computer-generated imagery." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The photographic moment, by Merry A Foresta; The photography of invention: American pictures of the 1980s, by Joshua P. Smith; Catalogue. Size: Oblong. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large hardback w/ jacket; unmarked; no bent/torn pp.; jacket fine.

Softbound. Condition: VG, top of text block dirty. Blue paper wraps with stiff color pictorial DJ, [viii] 227pp, prolific color and BW plates. "Pictures that are made, not taken, are the focus of this exciting collectionof works by 90 American artists who are using appropriation, computer technology, performance, and numerous other sources of inspiration to stretch the limits and expand the possibilities of photographic art. The selection of non-traditional pictures includes works by some of the decade's most interesting experimenters -- Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, William Christenberry, Louise Lawler, Stefan Roloff, and others -- who create or manipulate the subject photographed." (flap).…

Softcover. Blue paper wraps with stiff color pictorial DJ. 225 pp; profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates. Encompasses 90 American artists who use other sources of inspiration to expand the possibilities of photographic art; these are pictures that are made not taken; this catalogue includes by Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger, William Christenberry, Louise Lawler, Stefan Roloff, and Richard Prince, and others; Intro. by Merry Foresta and essay by Joshua Smith. VG+, presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author.…

hardcover. Condition: Good.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Condition: As New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.