Crisis of the Real: Writings on Photography Since 1974 (Aperture Writers & Artists on Photography)

"Agree with them or not, Andy Grundberg's provocative critical opinions invariably make one think hard about the art of photography. Gathered together in the rigorous form of a book, his reflections take on a new perspective and provide a rare opportunity to relive--and reconsider--recent history: a decade and a half of such intensity that the shape of photography changed forever." --Jim Hughes, author of W. Eugene Smith: Shadow & Substance The Crisis Of The Real -- Re: Mastering Modernism. Alfred Stieglitz And The Contradictions Of Modernism ; Edward Weston's Late Landscapes ; Ansel Adams: The Politics Of Natural Space ; Minor White: The Fall From Grace Of A Spiritual Guru ; The Radical Failure Of Laszlo Moholy-nagy ; Robert Frank's Existential Refrain -- In Search Of America. The Machine And The Garden: Photography, Technology, And The End Of Innocent Space ; Walker Evans, Connoisseur Of The Commonplace ; Helen Levitt's Realist Theater ; The Final Facts Of Garry Winogrand ; Lee Friedlander's Portraits ; Robert Adam's Pathetic Frontier ; Joel Sternfeld: The Itinerant Vision ; Richard Avedon's Portraits: Inverted Fashion, Fashionable Mud ; Nan Goldin's Grim Ballad --^ A New Kind Of Art: Camera Culture In The 1980s. Introduction ; Photographic Culture In A Drawn World ; Andy Warhol: Presentation Without Representation ; Chuck Close's Hyperbolic Verisimilitude ; Lucas Samaras's Photographs: Sliced, Stabbed, And Cubed Polaroids ; Cindy Sherman: A Playful And Political Postmodernist ; Cindy Sherman, Continued: Grimm, But Still Playful ; Laurie Simmons: Water Buoyed ; Barbara Kruger: Photomontage With Difference ; Richard Prince, Rephotographer ; Robert Cumming, Conflationist ; Jan Groover: Consciousness As Content ; The Photograph As Art Object ; Robert Mapplethorpe: The Subject Is Style ; Now Starring The Starn Twins ; The Representation Of Abstraction/the Abstraction Of Representation --^ Documentary Dilemmas. Introduction ; What Kind Of Art Is It? Connoisseurs Versus Contextualists ; Decoding National Geographic ; Oliver North, Fawn Hall, And The View Of Life From Life ; The Foreign And The Fabulous ; The New Photojournalism And The Old ; Magnum's Postwar Paradox ; Subject And Style: Prospects For A New Documentary ; Portraits, Real And Recycled ; Nicholas Nixon's People, With Aids ; Displaced Sympathies: A Reading Of Bill Burke's Portraits -- Photography At The End Of The Millennium. Photography In Its 150th Year ; Photography In The Age Of Electronic Simulation ; Looking At Television ; Photographic Memory And The News In Real Time ; Art Under Attack: Who Dares Say That It's No Good? ; Points Of Entry: Tracing Cultures ; Photography's Dark Side: The Work Of Sophie Calle ; Sweet Illusion: Vik Muniz's Sigmund ; J. John Priola: The Photograph As Index ; Photography Beside Itself. Andy Grundberg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. img_0 img_00 img_000 img_1 img_2 img_3 img_4 img_5 img_6 img_7 img_8 img_9 img_10 img_11 img_12 img_13 img_14 img_15 img_16 img_17 img_18 img_19 img_20 img_21 img_22 img_23 img_24 img_25 img_26 img_27 img_28 img_29 img_30 img_31 img_32 img_33 img_34 img_35 img_36 img_37 img_38 img_39 img_40 img_41 img_42 img_43 img_44 img_45 img_46 img_47 img_48 img_49 img_50 img_51 img_52 img_53 img_54 img_55 img_56 img_57 img_58 img_59 img_60 img_61 img_62 img_63 img_64 img_65 img_66 img_67 img_68 img_69 img_70 img_71 img_72 img_73 img_74 img_75 img_76 img_77 img_78 img_79 img_80 img_81 img_82 img_83 img_84 img_85 img_86 img_87 img_88 img_89 img_90 img_91 img_92 img_93 img_94 img_95 img_96 img_97 img_98 img_99 img_100 img_101 img_102 img_103 img_104 img_105 img_106 img_107 img_108 img_109 img_110 img_111 img_112 img_113 img_114 img_115 img_116 img_117 img_118 img_119 img_120 img_121 img_122 img_123 img_124 img_125 img_126 img_127 img_128 img_129 img_130 img_131 img_132 img_133 img_134 img_135 img_136 img_137 img_138 img_139 img_140 img_141 img_142 img_143 img_144 img_145 img_146 img_147 img_148 img_149 img_150 img_152 img_153 "Andy Grundberg, known internationally for his articles in the New York Times, has been one of the most respected and widely read voices in photography and the visual arts for more than twenty years. This classic volume, newly expanded in this edition to include a selection of Grundberg's writings since 1989, is the only compilation of his work available."--BOOK JACKET. "Grundberg argues that photographs, by fundamentally altering the way in which we perceive reality, have upset conventional ideas about the relationship of art and life. How photographs have redefined the mission of art, and in what sense they have replaced reality, are questions that underlie much of Grundberg's criticism."--BOOK JACKET