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The Photograph As Contemporary Art Review

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The Photograph As Contemporary Art Review book by Charlotte Cotton There is so much information in this book. I find it to be pretty comprehensive and enlightening. The chapters are divided into contemporary art categories or themes to “ avoid giving the impression that it is either style or choice of subject matter that predominantly determines the salient characteristics of current art photography. She provides photographs that show the theme of each chapter.  The first chapter of  If This Is Art , debunks the lone-photographer-snapping-away-at-life notion by introducing artists who have created performances to photograph them. This style was conceived in the 60s and work because the photograph is the intended final outcome. The photographic style can play on the notion that these are  only  casual documentary photographs of the event. This challenge lifts these out of the documentary photography category and into the art category. Some of the photographers introdu...
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Curran Hatleberg Bio Curran Hatleberg received his MFA from Yale University in 2010. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MASS MoCA, Higher Pictures and Fraenkel Gallery. Hatleberg has taught photography at numerous institutions, including Yale University and Cooper Union. He is the recipient of a a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant, a 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant and the 2010 Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography. Hatleberg’s work is held in various museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, SF MoMA, KADIST, the Center for Contemporary Photography, the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. His work has been published frequently in periodicals such as Harpers, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vice and The Paris Review. Lost Coast, his f...
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