Inscribed first edition of this handsomely produced work of art history detailing photography since the late 1970s, when Fried argues it came into its own as art form. Photographers discussed include Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Philip Lorca DiCorcia, Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, and Candida Hofer. Hardcover. 4to. Green boards in photographic dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Fried to title page: "To Michael, / with best wishes, / Mike Fried." Very mild touches of edgewear to jacket. Crisp and clean throughout. 409pp. Near fine in a near fine jacket. Seller Inventory # 43505

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Title: WHY PHOTOGRAPHY MATTERS AS ART AS NEVER ...

Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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A renowned critic and historian offers a radically new account of the meaning of ambitious art photography since the Bechers

From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried further demonstrates that certain philosophically deep problems—associated with notions of theatricality, literalness, and objecthood, and touching on the role of original intention in artistic production, first discussed in his contro�versial essay “Art and Objecthood” (1967)—have come to the fore once again in recent photography. This means that the photo�graphic “ghetto” no longer exists; instead photography is at the cutting edge of contemporary art as never before.

Among the photographers and video-makers whose work receives serious attention in this powerfully argued book are Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Fischer, Thomas Demand, Candida H�fer, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, James Welling, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Future discussions of the new art photography will have no choice but to take a stand for or against Fried’s conclusions.

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Michael Fried is J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art at The Johns Hopkins University.

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