ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Art and Photography
The first major survey of photography's place in recent art history, now available in paperback.Edited by David Campany

The most authoritative and wide ranging survey to explore the place of photography in contemporary art
International artists of the last four decades are each represented by a significant work or series, accompanied by a lucid explanatory text
Includes texts by some of the most significant writers of the late 20th century, such as the theorists Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, and artists Victor Burgin and Jeff Wall
Essential reference work for students, professionals and all readers interested in photography and media

More about this titleBack to top of page When published in 2003 Art and Photography was the first book of its kind to survey the major presence of photography at the centre of artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. On its invention, the photograph was considered a purely mechanical, an artless object that could not be included in the fine arts. Despite its increasing use by the twentieth century's most significant artists, only since the late 1960s have art museums gradually begun to exhibit and acquire the photograph as an artwork. Today photography is the pre-eminent artistic medium for contemporary artists.

Now available in paperback, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of photography’s place in recent art history, further contextualized in the Documents section by original artists’ statements and interviews, together with critical and theoretical reflections on the photographic and the art of the photograph.

Survey David Campany provides a comprehensive historical overview of photography's place in twentieth-century art history.

Works section of colour and duotone images, each accompanied by an extended caption. Divided thematically, each section explores the different uses to which photography has been put in twentieth-century culture, and the diverse ways in which artists have explored and pushed the boundaries of these different aspects of photography.

Among more than 190 examples of the most significant photographic projects by artists are works by John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Bernd &