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

Title
The uses of photography : art, politics, and the reinvention of a medium / edited by Jill Dawsey ; with contributions by David Antin, Jill Dawsey, Pamela M. Lee, Judith Rodenbeck, and Benjamin J. Young.
Publication
  • La Jolla, California : Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ; Oakland California : University of California Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Antin, David
  • Lee, Pamela M.
  • Rodenbeck, Judith F.
  • Young, Benjamin J.
  • Dawsey, Jill
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, host institution.
Description
223 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Summary
"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.
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
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla, California, September 24, 2016-January 2, 2017.
Contents
The uses of photography: an introduction / Jill Dawsey -- "There was no radicalization...It was normal for us": teaching and learning with the visual arts department, 1967-76 / Pamela M. Lee -- Various small ethnofictions of coastal California / Judith Rodenbeck -- Documents and documentary: San Diego, c. 1973 / Benjamin J. Young -- Remembering recording representing / David Antin.
Call Number
JQF 16-1113
ISBN
  • 0520290593
  • 9780520290594
LCCN
2016936172
OCLC
945028521
Title
The uses of photography : art, politics, and the reinvention of a medium / edited by Jill Dawsey ; with contributions by David Antin, Jill Dawsey, Pamela M. Lee, Judith Rodenbeck, and Benjamin J. Young.
Publisher
La Jolla, California : Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ; Oakland California : University of California Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Antin, David, editor.
Lee, Pamela M., editor.
Rodenbeck, Judith F., editor.
Young, Benjamin J., editor.
Dawsey, Jill, editor.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 16-1113
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